[ { "QUOTE": "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Ullman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "All diseases run into one, old age.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man over forty is a scoundrel.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Chevalier", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A man growing old becomes a child again.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age considers youth ventures.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is no place for sissies.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a long time to become young.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Midler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is fifteen years older than I am.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Friedan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick is growing up without growing old.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Conroy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is how we determine how valuable you are.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Elliot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.", "AUTHOR": "Kitty O'Neill Collins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kronenberger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is a shipwreck.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Bleasdale", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Graham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Spacey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Lahti", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Coffin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is ever old enough to know better.", "AUTHOR": "Holbrook Jackson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We pay when old for the excesses of youth.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Edel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lerner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of aging.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Duvall", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Fowler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Bailey Aldrich", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.", "AUTHOR": "Knut Hamsun", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Weldon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Canfield Fisher", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I get all fired up about aging in America.", "AUTHOR": "Willard Scott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Anton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.", "AUTHOR": "Colleen McCullough", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Spark", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.", "AUTHOR": "Hume Cronyn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Wells", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.", "AUTHOR": "Ira Gershwin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As men get older, the toys get more expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Davis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.", "AUTHOR": "William Ernest Hocking", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'", "AUTHOR": "Claude Pepper", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The golden age is before us, not behind us.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is just a record of one's whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best provision for old age.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Bunuel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I must confess, I was born at a very early age.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is not important unless you're a cheese.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman has the age she deserves.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age merely shows what children we remain.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "How young can you die of old age?", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If youth knew if age could.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth has no age.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In youth we learn in age we understand.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Morrissey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We are always the same age inside.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What is an adult? A child blown up by age.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Benny", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has no age, no limit and no death.", "AUTHOR": "John Galsworthy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Ball", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No lie ever reaches old age.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Cooper", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You should not consider a man's age but his acts.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At my age flowers scare me.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not well to make great changes in old age.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is the verdict of life.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care about age very much.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Schaeffer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Not even old age knows how to love death.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age carries all things away, even the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age steals away all things, even the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.", "AUTHOR": "Satyajit Ray", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Wyse", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not matter if the matter does not age.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Women lie about their age men lie about their income.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Carpenter", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Jarrell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "By Time and Age full many things are taught.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.", "AUTHOR": "David Brinkley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Live your life and forget your age.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The surest sign of age is loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age, like distance lends a double charm.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my father handled that for me at a very early age.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Now is the age of anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Morrissey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Andretti", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Weston", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.", "AUTHOR": "Bennett Cerf", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "They that have lived a single day have lived an age.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In my old age, I'll be in L.A.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall not grow conservative with age.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.", "AUTHOR": "A. C. Benson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Where children are, there is the golden age.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.", "AUTHOR": "Li Ka Shing", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.", "AUTHOR": "Birch Bayh", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've gotten crankier in my old age.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.", "AUTHOR": "Phoebe Cary", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.", "AUTHOR": "Jock Sturges", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried not to age, but time had its rage.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to age with some dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Means", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People dance at any age.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never worried about age.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films, you just can't.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Kidd", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Clough", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm past the age of getting lost.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Lee Ray", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.", "AUTHOR": "Navjot Singh Sidhu", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air the punk rock movement made sense.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Rapaport", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Peet", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried not to age, but time had its rage.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond de Goncourt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Adams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Lauren", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bishop", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.", "AUTHOR": "Gary L. Francione", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Armani", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Stiles", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.", "AUTHOR": "Robert. L. Ehrlich", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Clark Powell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Burrell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Attenborough", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.", "AUTHOR": "Isak Dinesen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age for me is just a number.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say, 'You're a sellout, because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore, all I do is TV.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clayton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Thompson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Greer Garson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalyn S. Yalow", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Edwards", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.", "AUTHOR": "Elijah Wood", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.", "AUTHOR": "Irvin S. Cobb", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Pissarro", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Kuhn", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Romero", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.", "AUTHOR": "Florida Scott-Maxwell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a small club of women who are willing to age.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel more mature than most people my age.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Getty", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Abril", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting is an impossible job at any age.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Bell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate and enjoy my age.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.", "AUTHOR": "John Mellencamp", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.", "AUTHOR": "George Foreman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Zelazny", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.", "AUTHOR": "James Truslow Adams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Chevalier", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Stipe", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Jackson Turner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.", "AUTHOR": "S. I. Hayakawa", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe back in the day you didn't need to be the greatest looking to be on TV and you didn't need to speak the best, but in this day and age, I think you need to be the package. You need to look the part for your sponsors, you need to be able to speak the part for the media and to big CEOs.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.", "AUTHOR": "Wim Wenders", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bryson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "They say eyes clear with age.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Larkin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind my age.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Mills", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Comaneci", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Fishman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Raitt", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Nobel", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barker", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.", "AUTHOR": "Jock Sturges", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.", "AUTHOR": "Walker Percy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mikulski", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Antonoff", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very sexual from a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lehrer", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Driver", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Daltrey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never felt totally, 100%, patriotically English... I'd seen a lot of the world by an early age - sort of spent a lot of time traveling around Lebanon and I'd seen Babylon, and Damascus, and all sorts of places in the Middle East by the time I was ten. Then we'd return to Ruslip in West London... Done a fair bit of traveling really.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You just never know when you're living in a golden age.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like women are asked their age more than men.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Horowitz", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.", "AUTHOR": "John Stamos", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age of mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.", "AUTHOR": "Ann-Margret", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.", "AUTHOR": "Vita Sackville-West", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia M. Child", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.", "AUTHOR": "James Ellroy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.", "AUTHOR": "Florida Scott-Maxwell", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Frankfurter", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Mills", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "age" }, { "QUOTE": "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I restore myself when I'm alone.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are rarely proud when we are alone.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Burstyn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Carr", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To live alone is the fate of all great souls.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.", "AUTHOR": "Yousuf Karsh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Garbo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.", "AUTHOR": "Frida Kahlo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Boethius", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember we're all in this alone.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Rothstein", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Being alone is very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Orbison", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When the people you love are gone, you're alone.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tournier", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "By all means use some time to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I jump around more when I'm alone.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happily single.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You're only lonely if you're not there for you.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Edgerton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Oberst", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Waugh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Freeman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You only grow when you are alone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Newman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.", "AUTHOR": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Koller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I am alone I am always alone no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The doer alone learneth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Marcos", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Blood alone moves the wheels of history.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Burgess", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wesley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Tannen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Work alone is noble.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Garbo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.", "AUTHOR": "William Alexander", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom comes alone through suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Better be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Change alone is unchanging.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody I don't have to be a first to anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Horne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Antoinette", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Idol", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen G. White", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Peabo Bryson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Health consists with temperance alone.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.", "AUTHOR": "Menachem Mendel Schneerson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Coyne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very easy to love alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Taylor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No memory is ever alone it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Peltier", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Markham", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Zimbardo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Victims always feel alone and helpless.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Chantal Kreviazuk", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Jones", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Engel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all in this alone.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Appleby", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wilcox", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The strong man is strongest when alone.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Hamill", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Thompson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Testing oneself is best when done alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kane", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Berry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Love alone could waken love.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I need, absolutely, to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Headey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Alone I'm nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Danes", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like being in houses alone.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.", "AUTHOR": "Slavoj Zizek", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Carr", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Solti", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Francis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abrahams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Letitia Barbauld", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All we ask is to be let alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jefferson Davis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.", "AUTHOR": "James Whistler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.", "AUTHOR": "George Canning", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Martinez", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Eisenstaedt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.", "AUTHOR": "Friedensreich Hundertwasser", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Jaspers", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Worse there cannot be a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Hume", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important for moms to have alone time. However, that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me, because of my job, I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Abell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Schizophrenia beats dining alone.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Levant", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!", "AUTHOR": "Anna Letitia Barbauld", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so accustomed to being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Aragon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never less alone than when by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?", "AUTHOR": "Dustin Hoffman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cornell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Brunton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Thomas", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Sizemore", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Nicole Smith", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Eugenides", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful crimes alone are justified.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Becker", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The writer is all alone.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Cristiano Ronaldo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.", "AUTHOR": "George Berkeley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Dar Williams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Kulongoski", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas de Quincey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Nicole Smith", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Wood", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.", "AUTHOR": "Rick James", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To be adult is to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fenn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should be left to suffer alone.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffery Deaver", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue alone has majesty in death.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Ali ibn Abi Talib", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No one chooses to raise children alone.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Feldon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Byrne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always easier if you have the support of your family, if you're not alone. I came from a country that has been through a lot of troubles in the last 20 to 30 years, but we have been through them together.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Love Peacock", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Parks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.", "AUTHOR": "Scipio Africanus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my best ideas when I am alone.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.", "AUTHOR": "Roald Dahl", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Abbott", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Eldritch", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Gabor", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Nielsen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Lacy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Fisher", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.", "AUTHOR": "George Linnaeus Banks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man cannot live by incompetence alone.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Whitton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Macphail", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In the country of pain we are each alone.", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.", "AUTHOR": "Vaslav Nijinsky", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Bronte", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Musil", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a huge Wes Anderson fan I would faint if I met him, let alone got to work with him.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately when lawful, they do not excite desire.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Kempthorne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Klimt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your mind alone, and see what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Thomson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Wilber", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rose", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.", "AUTHOR": "William Tyndale", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they're alone and it's not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you're going through and are going through it now.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.", "AUTHOR": "Henry George", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Gill", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.", "AUTHOR": "William Pennington", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Grizzard", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.", "AUTHOR": "Navjot Singh Sidhu", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Duke", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Griswold", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Turgenev", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.", "AUTHOR": "Isocrates", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What good is sitting all alone in your room?", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.", "AUTHOR": "Lorna Luft", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.", "AUTHOR": "David Foster Wallace", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Willis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Porchia", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Stephenson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.", "AUTHOR": "William Blackstone", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Chesney", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Mary MacLane", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Lacy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Lacy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Weaving", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Warne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I still don't like going to bed alone.", "AUTHOR": "James Franco", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Eugenides", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Collins", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Waugh", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.", "AUTHOR": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my life alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Powter", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Goodkind", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.", "AUTHOR": "David Ricardo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Namie Amuro", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Durante", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Gibb", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Falco", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.", "AUTHOR": "John Webster", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Carroll", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.", "AUTHOR": "Shannen Doherty", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.", "AUTHOR": "Uwe Boll", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Wynne Jones", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.", "AUTHOR": "William Gurnall", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.", "AUTHOR": "Placido Domingo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Bloom", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists walk alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so secluded. Very alone.", "AUTHOR": "Yves Saint Laurent", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.", "AUTHOR": "James Ellroy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Houston", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Coxon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nobody else on the face of this earth that's playing a sport at a highest level... with a transplant. That alone continues to inspire me, because I realize throughout the whole world the struggles that people are going through. I need to inspire them the best way I can.", "AUTHOR": "Alonzo Mourning", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Hoult", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Zaslow", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadette Peters", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I sailboat raced, I love to go out on my motorcycle alone, but I also love my family dearly. I love that aspect of my life as well.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Seger", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.", "AUTHOR": "Spencer Bachus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Zimbardo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to read books and be alone I'm not social butterfly person.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Solo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.", "AUTHOR": "Danny DeVito", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Kapranos", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But there's not enough time in life to go sit at a party, have a drink, and make idle conversation. There's too many important things to do. Just being together with my husband, spending time alone, which I have very little of.", "AUTHOR": "Pia Zadora", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?", "AUTHOR": "Sextus Propertius", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Robert", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.", "AUTHOR": "Meghan O'Rourke", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Highsmith", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Venerable Bede", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Tucker", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Abizaid", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Weyrich", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.", "AUTHOR": "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Liebknecht", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "By being friends with all, we are not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is an island. No man stands alone.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Brown", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cochrane", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.", "AUTHOR": "John Naisbitt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Hodgkin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Tartt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Cuvier", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Grace", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Carr", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fabulous journey alone. I want someone by my side who I love and who loves me. I've finally found somebody who's up to the task of being my wife, because I'm very high maintenance.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Diamond", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Berkley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Macfadyen", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For a while I felt very alone sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Sienkiewicz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Gallagher", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.", "AUTHOR": "Slick Rick", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how fast I could do it with the digital camera I don't think I would get the same thing out of it. The passion I have for formulating an idea stands alone. It is the important essence of what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.", "AUTHOR": "Knut Hamsun", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Lajos Kossuth", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.", "AUTHOR": "Lajos Kossuth", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.", "AUTHOR": "David Brooks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Ellul", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Gilroy", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Evans", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Pegg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Pegg", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Raven", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Del Rey", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.", "AUTHOR": "Goran Persson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Jennings", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "John Fletcher", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Zemeckis", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Krantz", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.", "AUTHOR": "Bharati Mukherjee", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Holzer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Holzer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.", "AUTHOR": "William Weld", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Nauman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Lineker", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Herzl", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Dratch", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Allred", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Swift", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Swoopes", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Zooey Deschanel", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Swetchine", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Brooks", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shannon", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Rieu", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cormier", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.", "AUTHOR": "Itzhak Perlman", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Way Teale", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.", "AUTHOR": "George Armstrong Custer", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Celler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Vance", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Stanton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Most photographers work best alone, myself included.", "AUTHOR": "Elliott Erwitt", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.", "AUTHOR": "Orville Redenbacher", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Henley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Broch", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.", "AUTHOR": "Shannen Doherty", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "William Shirley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Patrick King", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.", "AUTHOR": "James Monroe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.", "AUTHOR": "Uwe Boll", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.", "AUTHOR": "Uwe Boll", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.", "AUTHOR": "Stacy Keibler", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.", "AUTHOR": "Don Henley", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Sharett", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Buckingham", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Buckingham", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Folds", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore Quasimodo", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Baio", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Moreau", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Luner", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Brown", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Linklater", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan Robinson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Coe", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "You are forever alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan Robinson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chertoff", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan Robinson", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon H. Blackwood", "GENRE": "alone" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Land", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "People never cease to amaze me.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Yothers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Fisher", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ford", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing amazes me anymore.", "AUTHOR": "David Beckham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?", "AUTHOR": "John Leonard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Pietersen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Amazement awaits us at every corner.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Farrell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Mara", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Drudge", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Geri Halliwell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.", "AUTHOR": "John Oates", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Mann", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.", "AUTHOR": "M. H. Abrams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Kasum", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Walton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Coyne", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Ayers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing, fun courses.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Newman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Steinberg", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Polanski's an amazing director.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy McKeon", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're curious, London's an amazing place.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it's a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wilson Lynd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "David Blaine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was dreaming. It was the most amazing moment of my entire life. Not only is Bill the love of my life, but he's also my best friend. I couldn't believe my dream guy was asking me to marry him!", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Berry", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've performed in Auburn Hills, at The Palace, so I haven't really been in downtown Detroit, but I've been able to be here, and I can really see, what the city was. Like, I can feel why Motown started here and how amazing it was.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers, bringing them the hottest trends in fashion, accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics, it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It's a tough class, which makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. It's a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think having children is the most amazing thing.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some amazing stories from all over this country, where people's work and contribution has been acknowledged. To be part of that is an absolutely fantastic feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Branagh", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L'Oreal Paris family. I'm such a fan of L'Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.", "AUTHOR": "Thierry Henry", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.'", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that's that.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast members.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "God bless you if you have one child, but I don't think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I don't know what I would do if I had been an only child.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how much you can absorb on a film set.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Lynch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Louisiana. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Selleck", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how I can just ramble on for hours, isn't it? And so unentertaining or uninteresting. But I can ramble on for hours. It's a sort of terrible gift, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If my kids are doing well, then my life is going pretty well. And if my kids aren't doing well, it doesn't matter how the other elements of my life are. It's kind of amazing to have a context like that. This is really wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My father is an amazing man.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.", "AUTHOR": "David O. Russell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.", "AUTHOR": "David Blaine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Molko", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Winslet", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always be this crazy, fun person, but when it's time to get married, I'm going to be an amazing wife.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Polizzi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.", "AUTHOR": "Thierry Henry", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.", "AUTHOR": "Jolene Blalock", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?", "AUTHOR": "Linda McCartney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bolton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love insects. They are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.", "AUTHOR": "Neve Campbell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Styles", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Landau", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Watson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I seriously love to cook... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade pasta, Cavatelli and Ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The magic kit we developed with Idea Village is an extraordinary success in 40,000 stores across America. The TV commercial we shot for it has produced amazing results - unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have a lot of time you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners Lee", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners Lee", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners Lee", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mother is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way,' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think dance is amazing because what people don't realize is like when you dance your spirit and your soul get ignited. You're not only releasing endorphins, but also your spirit is awakening. It makes you feel good and happy.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Mercer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Morrison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty amazing being me.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Morrison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Carlisle Floyd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Hanson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an amazing relationship with food.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.", "AUTHOR": "Sigourney Weaver", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Paisley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Beyonce Knowles", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Yothers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.", "AUTHOR": "David Guetta", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Finch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Goddard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Reba McEntire came through town when I lived in Texas. She had this amazing theatrical show with, like, 13 different wardrobe changes. I was eight and I was like, Wow, I wanna do that!", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made.", "AUTHOR": "Errol Morris", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, it is amazing how much European films - Italian, French, German and English - have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.", "AUTHOR": "Wim Wenders", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With 'The Host,' I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. I'd love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.", "AUTHOR": "Stephenie Meyer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.", "AUTHOR": "Paz de la Huerta", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Silverstone", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.", "AUTHOR": "John Sexton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Foxy Brown", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Jones", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I've ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple - she had purple lipstick on. I don't think there will ever be anything cooler than kissing her... until I marry her maybe!", "AUTHOR": "Niall Horan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.", "AUTHOR": "Chris LeDoux", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing she is just so beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Brown Findlay", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Sienkiewicz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arlen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Miller", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist.", "AUTHOR": "David Oyelowo", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hunter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Morrison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.", "AUTHOR": "Dawn French", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Ushkowitz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Sanders", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I don't expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones - that's what makes the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Giamatti", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Butler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.", "AUTHOR": "Cobi Jones", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.", "AUTHOR": "Yahoo Serious", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I'm honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it's a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Brees", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Aubrey Plaza", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jourdan Dunn", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hughes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Alessandra Ambrosio", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Swift", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.", "AUTHOR": "John Dyer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's awesome to see something like 'Inception', which is just mind-blowing and amazing, and it actually resonates with the audiences. I feel like that's rare.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriela Sabatini", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Strahan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jordana Brewster", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Daly", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Reed", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Reed", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mckellen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Lyne", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.", "AUTHOR": "James Young", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.", "AUTHOR": "Paz Vega", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Finney", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Potter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Murphy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.", "AUTHOR": "F. Murray Abraham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.", "AUTHOR": "Ozwald Boateng", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Redmayne", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.", "AUTHOR": "Steffi Graf", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Gulbis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Gulbis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Gulbis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.", "AUTHOR": "Rose McGowan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.", "AUTHOR": "Blair Underwood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Duhamel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Cameron", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Fischer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.", "AUTHOR": "James Patterson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Watson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "100 million iphones don't lie. What an amazing man. He is the apple of all of our i's. We have an i everything and its all so amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Bush", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.", "AUTHOR": "Kyra Sedgwick", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great time with John Duigan he's pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Rockwell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Rockwell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Jewison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.", "AUTHOR": "John Oates", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great family, I live an amazing life.", "AUTHOR": "John Oates", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Allen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community - not the community coming to the concert - they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sherwood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Swanepoel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.", "AUTHOR": "Armistead Maupin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.", "AUTHOR": "Charles E. Wilson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.", "AUTHOR": "John Lithgow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Garavani", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Richardson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wood", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Lee DeWyze", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Shaw", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Pistorius", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Shannyn Sossamon", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Roach", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Elfman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Hall", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.", "AUTHOR": "Alia Shawkat", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Tennant", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.", "AUTHOR": "Callan McAuliffe", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Norville", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.", "AUTHOR": "David Dinkins", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Brolin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Ifill", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing what some people read into songs.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Thompson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Budge", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the chance to get on stage at Wembley 30 years after we started is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Elliott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love watching amazing actors and actresses that you can't take your eyes off of because everything they are doing - even if it is just twiddling their thumbs or scratching their eye - it's just interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Paxton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Long", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Brown", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the poster boy for Propecia. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lando", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Danny DeVito", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an amazing childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Cornish", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?", "AUTHOR": "Alan Vega", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?", "AUTHOR": "John Astin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Kidder", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.", "AUTHOR": "John Lasseter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Croatia is an amazing place.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Reno", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bay", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Parker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chabon", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Kudrow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Livingston", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a parent is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Taylor", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Pettyfer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Hamilton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Richter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shum, Jr.", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Olyphant", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce McCulloch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Hook", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.", "AUTHOR": "Lara St. John", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Demme", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Edwidge Danticat", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Gerard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.", "AUTHOR": "Teddy Thompson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Preston", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Kressley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Crosby", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Preston", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Riley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Harrison", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Essex is an amazing county, with its own set of rules. It's a completely different world.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Van Outen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jil Sander", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Chalke", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Norm Crosby", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.", "AUTHOR": "Lizzy Caplan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Owen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Owen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Durkin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.", "AUTHOR": "R. A. Salvatore", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Stefano Langone", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Balaban", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.", "AUTHOR": "Demian Bichir", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Wakeman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jemima Kirke", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Laughlin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that this is all happening to Lost in Space.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Goddard", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rice", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Menounos", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.", "AUTHOR": "Nile Rodgers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Muren", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Evangeline Lilly", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.", "AUTHOR": "Anselm Kiefer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Mark Conseulos is so amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Rabe", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!", "AUTHOR": "Lily Rabe", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The good Lord is amazing He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'", "AUTHOR": "David Nail", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Will Arnett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Mensch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Mensch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.", "AUTHOR": "Howie Carr", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.", "AUTHOR": "Luc Ferrari", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Johnson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Kina Grannis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past few years, we've been doing amazing stuff with desserts. Pastry chefs have been using herbs and spices in their desserts. So vanilla cake doesn't have to be just vanilla, it can have a little thyme. Or you could have a custard with a little lavender in it, which is just amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.", "AUTHOR": "Chita Rivera", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!", "AUTHOR": "Allison Williams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel McChord Crothers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Caulfield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all doing different things and some of the girls are mums, so priorities have changed. But I would love to do something with the Spice Girls again. I know we would have an amazing time.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bunton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Pigozzi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irvine", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.", "AUTHOR": "James Dickey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Krysten Ritter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mayhew", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "New Orleans in an amazing town.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Walker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Hawkins", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Any day acting is an amazing day.", "AUTHOR": "Kiernan Shipka", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Arkin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Lauren Adams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast I can't remember what I said or what happened.", "AUTHOR": "Cuba Gooding, Jr.", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Davis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?", "AUTHOR": "Ken Follet", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Holden", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.", "AUTHOR": "Chaske Spencer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Campbell Bower", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.", "AUTHOR": "Kara DioGuardi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love MySpace it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Allen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Rich", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Godfrey", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.", "AUTHOR": "Sherry Stringfield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.", "AUTHOR": "Emerson Fittipaldi", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kellerman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Florence", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Dinklage", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Rabin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Johnson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Metheny", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Astin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to see places like Madison Square Garden on the schedule again.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Andrew Taylor", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Cole", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Tara Reid", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hislop", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Elliott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "James Franco has this interesting and relaxed look. It's pretty 'I don't care,' but it still looks good. Ryan Gosling also has amazing style. I take a lot of my fashion tips from those two. In my opinion, they're the ones getting it right.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Henderson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was one of the most amazing men - the most amazing man that I ever met... He lived an amazing life.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Henderson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Henderson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Haas", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Andre", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.", "AUTHOR": "Stockard Channing", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "At 13, I realized that I could fix anything electronic. It was amazing, I could just do it. I started a business repairing radios. It grew to be one of the largest in Philadelphia.", "AUTHOR": "Amar Bose", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Henderson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Lumley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jordan Knight", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Robertson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Benson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Love", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Vesnina", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.", "AUTHOR": "Jan de Bont", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jan de Bont", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Derek", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!", "AUTHOR": "Craig Charles", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.", "AUTHOR": "Thia Megia", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as the girls in my grade, it was always kind of an on-and-off thing. When all this came up, it was kind of hard. My guy friends and my family friends have been so amazing and supportive.", "AUTHOR": "Stacie Orrico", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Strong", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Willow Shields", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.", "AUTHOR": "Willow Shields", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love voice over! I just think it is amazing!", "AUTHOR": "Atticus Shaffer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Aly Raisman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Close", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.", "AUTHOR": "Malin Akerman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond E. Feist", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Kennedy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Brown", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The best days I have are usually days where I'm out in the woods and something happens, like I see an amazing animal like a fox, or I get a glimpse of a wild pig or something that I never see. Or crazy things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Ray", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Ashton Kutcher", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel True", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Witt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Bindi Irwin", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Karen O", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Bejo", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Clark", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Clark", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga's an amazing release.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Keena", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan O'Brien", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Hawkins", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Levy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Woodruff", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Woodruff", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Kane", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Mathis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.", "AUTHOR": "Brenda Lee", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well she's so professional and hardworking.", "AUTHOR": "Kaya Scodelario", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Bruna", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Meyers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Guarnaschelli", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Guarnaschelli", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.", "AUTHOR": "Tim DeKay", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Moynahan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ince", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.", "AUTHOR": "James Stewart", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Edmunds", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Cutler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Korman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wopat", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wopat", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Aziz Ansari", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Monk Kidd", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened.", "AUTHOR": "Evanna Lynch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.", "AUTHOR": "Tim O'Reilly", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The '60s were an amazing time.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Max", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To win one Moonman is amazing, to win two is incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Styles", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Quivers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Curtis Chapman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.", "AUTHOR": "Chubby Checker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Wilson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky that most of the time I'm on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don't need holidays, I just stop working.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Beacham", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Stannard Baker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hall", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Rowntree", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Frantz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Kemper", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Most New Yorkers want to look amazing, and they want you to understand that they look amazing, but they also want you to stop staring at them.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Kemper", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.", "AUTHOR": "Stana Katic", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.", "AUTHOR": "Stana Katic", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I love heels... whoever created heels is amazing!", "AUTHOR": "Katie Cassidy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Naima Adedapo", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Demme", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.", "AUTHOR": "James Maslow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Fleeshman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Vazquez", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.", "AUTHOR": "Tiffeny Milbrett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Derulo", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.", "AUTHOR": "Krista Allen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Krista Allen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.", "AUTHOR": "Geoff Downes", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Doctorow", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Stack Sullivan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hale", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Benanti", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Ulvaeus", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Hemsworth", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Laura San Giacomo", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Luckily, I have some amazing friends.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Black", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.", "AUTHOR": "David Cook", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Reaser", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.", "AUTHOR": "Kaley Cuoco", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.", "AUTHOR": "Kaley Cuoco", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.", "AUTHOR": "Kaley Cuoco", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.", "AUTHOR": "Libby Trickett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Ariana Grande", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I performed at 'Open Mic U.K.' I had this connection with the audience that I'd never felt before, and I loved it. It was my first big thing, and looking out into the crowd... was just amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.", "AUTHOR": "Pia Toscano", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.", "AUTHOR": "Pia Toscano", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.", "AUTHOR": "David Crane", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hadfield", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lopez", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Johnson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Hammer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Delson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Orr", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.", "AUTHOR": "Adrien Brody", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Sullivan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael McKean", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Welch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.", "AUTHOR": "Majel Barrett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Teyana Taylor", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Cropper", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.", "AUTHOR": "Saskia de Brauw", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Marsden", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Bear", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.", "AUTHOR": "Nas", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Armie Hammer", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Dev Patel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "As a planning board commissioner, I have to review the applications for development throughout the city, and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Frank", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Woolley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.", "AUTHOR": "Ciara", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Segall", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.", "AUTHOR": "Hailee Steinfeld", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.", "AUTHOR": "Vanilla Ice", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few of them wouldn't admit it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hatch", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Barrett", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Pena", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Melling", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so amazing to hear a crowd of people singing one of your songs. It's the best feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Payne", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Payne", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, it's amazing that I get to meet all these people. I've learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Fanning", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Robbie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Willis", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Handler", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.", "AUTHOR": "Bijou Phillips", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Brion", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.", "AUTHOR": "Rima Fakih", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy McKeon", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy McKeon", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Collins", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Breaking Bad' is the best, the greatest, the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kaye", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Marlohe", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Cummings", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Upton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Adams", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.", "AUTHOR": "Tilda Swinton", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Pena, Jr.", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Hurwitz", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Luner", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.", "AUTHOR": "Peta Wilson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Oakenfold", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Cosgrove", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.'", "AUTHOR": "Tristan Wilds", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Coventry", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Brie", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?", "AUTHOR": "Dana Fox", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kerr", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been an amazing year of individual performances.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kerr", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Rooker", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.", "AUTHOR": "Gus O'Donnell", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.", "AUTHOR": "Ione Skye", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Richman", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.", "AUTHOR": "Ray William Johnson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'", "AUTHOR": "Scott Porter", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Honda", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.", "AUTHOR": "James Roosevelt", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Derek Scott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Derek Scott", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to buy my mom a house I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ashthon Jones", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ashthon Jones", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Foley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.", "AUTHOR": "April Bowlby", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Eve Jihan Jeffers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the most amazing support network around me.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Frost", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Alfonso Ribeiro", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Debbi Peterson", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.", "AUTHOR": "Deryck Whibley", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.", "AUTHOR": "Gareth Gates", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.", "AUTHOR": "Lorin Maazel", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Leech", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Eric West", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.", "AUTHOR": "Jemaine Clement", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Collins", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Rady", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Sarafyan", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms.", "AUTHOR": "Megalyn Echikunwoke", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Krakowski", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Struthers", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McEuen", "GENRE": "amazing" }, { "QUOTE": "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When anger rises, think of the consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Get mad, then get over it.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "He who angers you conquers you.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Kenny", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a short madness.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Cato", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.", "AUTHOR": "Austin O'Malley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep cool anger is not an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Jarrett", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Garden", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Quillen", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Expressing anger is a form of public littering.", "AUTHOR": "Willard Gaylin", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Moore Colby", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah More", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Campbell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger cannot be dishonest.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Duer Miller", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Layton", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest remedy for anger is delay.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest remedy for anger is delay.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred is inveterate anger.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Boyd", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred is settled anger.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bronson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cahan", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney King", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Karl A. Menninger", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.", "AUTHOR": "Petrarch", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.", "AUTHOR": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.", "AUTHOR": "Nagarjuna", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Roth", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Williams", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Prior", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kerry", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Maddow", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Your anger is a gift.", "AUTHOR": "Zack de la Rocha", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Rice Burroghs", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.", "AUTHOR": "Maxine Waters", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I have some anger issues.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Dale", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a good motivator.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.", "AUTHOR": "G. M. Trevelyan", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca De Mornay", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Rush", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Slick", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett Hale", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Glover", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The anger of lovers renews their love.", "AUTHOR": "Terence", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Ritter", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Clemens", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.", "AUTHOR": "Tatum O'Neal", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Henry Abbott", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Berman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Carr", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Carr", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert South", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.", "AUTHOR": "Berkeley Breathed", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Nauman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.", "AUTHOR": "Edward F. Halifax", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.", "AUTHOR": "Eduard Shevardnadze", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.", "AUTHOR": "Chaz Bono", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.", "AUTHOR": "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmar Gabriel", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.", "AUTHOR": "Yancy Butler", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Albert", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.", "AUTHOR": "James Whitcomb Riley", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Trajkovski", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Crosby", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Alan Sekulow", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Darden", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.", "AUTHOR": "Ford Frick", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Friday", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Rich", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.", "AUTHOR": "Obie Trice", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Mackenzie Phillips", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Deming", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.", "AUTHOR": "Paddy Ashdown", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Bernice Johnson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.", "AUTHOR": "John Avlon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lieberman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Staunton", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Power", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.", "AUTHOR": "M. Kathleen Casey", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Miranda", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Wiseman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger's not a good emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Lincoln Chafee", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Rice", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rourke", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Southcott", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Greig", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.", "AUTHOR": "Fisher Stevens", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I was shocked at the anger toward me.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadine Dohrn", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfred Burchett", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.", "AUTHOR": "David Simon", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Chianese", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Gardell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Kaus", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Mansell", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.", "AUTHOR": "Jessye Norman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.", "AUTHOR": "Annabella Sciorra", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through - the fear, the frustration, the anger... the hope that he'll leave a legacy.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Alibar", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Stanhope", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.", "AUTHOR": "Siouxsie Sioux", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cleave", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Dorfman", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Meyers", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hayes", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hayes", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Hines", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hoskins", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.", "AUTHOR": "Roberta Flack", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Harris", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.", "AUTHOR": "John Robinson", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.", "AUTHOR": "Vanilla Ice", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.", "AUTHOR": "Terry O'Quinn", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Richards", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Thomas", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly McGillis", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Walter Bates", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.", "AUTHOR": "Janos Kadar", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Alexander", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Ning Yang", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Blakely", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Savage", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Savage", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.", "AUTHOR": "John Lee Hancock", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Bleasdale", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund S. Muskie", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Obel", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Halifax", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sedgwick", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.", "AUTHOR": "Thylias Moss", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan", "GENRE": "anger" }, { "QUOTE": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "AUTHOR": "A. P. Herbert", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of good love can happen in ten years.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Signoret", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Shelton", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "AUTHOR": "Patrice Leconte", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Paisley", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Daughtry", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.", "AUTHOR": "Zane Grey", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Bancroft", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'", "AUTHOR": "Ali Larter", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "AUTHOR": "Uta Hagen", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Thornberry", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.", "AUTHOR": "Michael McCaul", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawley", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.", "AUTHOR": "Don Shula", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Nash", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Lee", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Murphy", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.", "AUTHOR": "Buck Owens", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kirkman", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Lawson", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.", "AUTHOR": "Elliot Richardson", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Belew", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Lesh", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Marchant", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evangelista", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Chisholm", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Eydie Gorme", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.", "AUTHOR": "AnnaLynne McCord", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa DeLauro", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.", "AUTHOR": "Mara Liasson", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.", "AUTHOR": "Don Sherwood", "GENRE": "anniversary" }, { "QUOTE": "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gehry", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Less is more.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is the art of how to waste space.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar Aalto", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher the building the lower the morals.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "A house is a machine for living in.", "AUTHOR": "Le Corbusier", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gaudi", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.", "AUTHOR": "Yoshio Taniguchi", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.", "AUTHOR": "Le Corbusier", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar Aalto", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Burnham", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Loos", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "But the building's identity resided in the ornament.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Sullivan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.", "AUTHOR": "David Allan Coe", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Karan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Morgan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "What people want, above all, is order.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ende", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have a style, I am not aware of it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.", "AUTHOR": "John Osborne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Form follows function.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Sullivan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Loos", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Breslin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. M. Stern", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Lynes", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gaudi", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Puryear", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "James Rouse", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Steinberg", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "John Portman", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.", "AUTHOR": "John Portman", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Morgan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Delia Ephron", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Meier", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Nemy", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Jackson Davis", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I am but an architectural composer.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Jackson Davis", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.", "AUTHOR": "Harry von Zell", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I call architecture frozen music.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture begins where engineering ends.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gropius", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Chavez", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!", "AUTHOR": "T. E. Lawrence", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "All real education is the architecture of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "William Bennett", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar Aalto", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture theory is very interesting.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Waters", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I see music as fluid architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.", "AUTHOR": "Le Corbusier", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Dimnet", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gehry", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture in general is frozen music.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich von Schelling", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smithson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jackson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gehry", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Robert", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Palmer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Garcia Lorca", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is inhabited sculpture.", "AUTHOR": "Constantin Brancusi", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Coen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Scott", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is about public space held by buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Christensen", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.", "AUTHOR": "Oren Peli", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Elliott", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nicholson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nicholson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nicholson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Chiat", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Chiat", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Oksana Baiul", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.", "AUTHOR": "William Devane", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tilson Thomas", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Mann", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is invention.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Goytisolo", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.", "AUTHOR": "Mukesh Ambani", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Loos", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Banks Smith", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.", "AUTHOR": "Gates McFadden", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Wallop", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Woodring", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.", "AUTHOR": "John Howe", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Kosinski", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Kosinski", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "An important work of architecture will create polemics.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Meier", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hamilton Finlay", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.", "AUTHOR": "Art Garfunkel", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Erskine", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bettany", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Breasted", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.", "AUTHOR": "George Hickenlooper", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.", "AUTHOR": "James Stewart", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sprouse", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Stella", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.", "AUTHOR": "James Maslow", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Russell Mead", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hale", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Warren Anderson", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Rose", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.", "AUTHOR": "John Baldacci", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.", "AUTHOR": "Giambattista Valli", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.", "AUTHOR": "Kenzo Tange", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.", "AUTHOR": "Kenzo Tange", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.", "AUTHOR": "Kenzo Tange", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Clark", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in morality in architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no requirements for a style of architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Reid", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Each new situation requires a new architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Nouvel", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Nouvel", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "I think architecture has to be a gift.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Nouvel", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bunch", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Kapor", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Levin", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stickley", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture aims at Eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Wren", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.", "AUTHOR": "James Wyatt", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Meier", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Lutyens", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.", "AUTHOR": "George Lamming", "GENRE": "architecture" }, { "QUOTE": "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every artist was first an amateur.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "This world is but a canvas to our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.", "AUTHOR": "James Whistler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A picture is worth a thousand words.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Pictures must not be too picturesque.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We have art in order not to die of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the proper task of life.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a thing it is a way.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A picture is a poem without words.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning is the most important part of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality is everything in art and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Degas", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In art as in love, instinct is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In art the best is good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All art is but imitation of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Even a true artist does not always produce art.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothea Lange", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I cry out for order and find it only in art.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.", "AUTHOR": "Hendrik Willem Van Loon", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A great artist is always before his time or behind it.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.", "AUTHOR": "Al Capp", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every good painter paints what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of art is the history of revivals.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "So vast is art, so narrow human wit.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Cartier-Bresson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Schumann", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Schumann", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is science made clear.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Rules and models destroy genius and art.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Fellini", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Things are beautiful if you love them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all lies, art is the least untrue.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is either plagiarism or revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Moore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the daughter of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every artist writes his own autobiography.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art picks up where nature ends.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfection of art is to conceal art.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My painting does not come from the easel.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sondheim", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Dreiser", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever art appears, life disappears.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Motherwell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Edgard Varese", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Cartier-Bresson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Lichtenstein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Steichen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "Gwendolyn Brooks", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about my work every minute of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Koons", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "By the work one knows the workman.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Lichtenstein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Strand", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.", "AUTHOR": "Anish Kapoor", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.", "AUTHOR": "Gian Carlo Menotti", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Miro", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to force creativity is never good.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision is the true creative rhythm.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Delacroix", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is by nature a luminous language.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A painting that is well composed is half finished.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Bonnard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smithson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Steichen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Moore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Steichen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hodges", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You begin with the possibilities of the material.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rauschenberg", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Calder", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Indiana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Vigny", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lowell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint with shapes.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Calder", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Indiana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Indiana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All art is quite useless.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of love is largely the art of persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art raises its head where creeds relax.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Coffin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of controlling your environment.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is never finished, only abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When you create art, the world has to wait.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Plath", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All in the Family was intellectual it was art.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not an exact science, it is an art.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Prefontaine", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hughes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Hagen", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Chinmoy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing new in art except talent.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What is art? Nature concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'", "AUTHOR": "Jef I. Richards", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "History develops, art stands still.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.", "AUTHOR": "Stella Adler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.", "AUTHOR": "John Tillotson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Fonteyn", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Where thou art, that is home.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Land really is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.", "AUTHOR": "Elliott Erwitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The true art of memory is the art of attention.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's clever, but is it Art?", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All nature is but art unknown to thee.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Saint-Gaudens", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My trade and art is to live.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Bruce", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is the art of how to waste space.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Space is the breath of art.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is an attempt to integrate evil.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.", "AUTHOR": "Lester Bangs", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hawk", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Let each man exercise the art he knows.", "AUTHOR": "Aristophanes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All good art is an indiscretion.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Winchell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Chopin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the objectification of feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of creation is older than the art of killing.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art seduces, but does not exploit.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Debussy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar Aalto", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Rossi", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What is art? Prostitution.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Degas", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Rand", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolve and thou art free.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a harmony parallel with nature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.", "AUTHOR": "Ingmar Bergman", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.", "AUTHOR": "George V. Higgins", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Carr", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is anything you can get away with.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Monet", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is short, the art long.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Parker", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Murch", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art lies by its own artifice.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.", "AUTHOR": "A. Bartlett Giamatti", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.", "AUTHOR": "John Lasseter", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Beuys", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Bell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.", "AUTHOR": "William Bernbach", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When art wins, everyone wins.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I like that the art world isn't regulated.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States it is arguably the finest anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate art auctions.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Guthrie", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The cult of art gives pride one never has too much of it.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.", "AUTHOR": "Constantin Stanislavski", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art and science have their meeting point in method.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.", "AUTHOR": "Kemal Ataturk", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is born of humiliation.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Motherwell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.", "AUTHOR": "David Frost", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Cantor", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.", "AUTHOR": "Paddy Chayefsky", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Art Blakey", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Duchamp", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Lincoln Steffens", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Monet", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of pleasing is the art of deception.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not living. It is the use of living.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of art is a scream of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Christo", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the art of making man ethical.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is the art of God.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Haring", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.", "AUTHOR": "Norman McLaren", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Koestler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Ad Reinhardt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.", "AUTHOR": "Knut Hamsun", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.", "AUTHOR": "Austin O'Malley", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.", "AUTHOR": "Camillo di Cavour", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Hofmann", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not interested in pop art.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Riding", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar Aalto", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.", "AUTHOR": "Albrecht Durer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Hammill", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrice Wood", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Originality is the art of concealing your source.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beckmann", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Casals", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Chicago", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Giacometti", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the signature of civilizations.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Holland", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Translation is the art of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Bettelheim", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Hazlitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.", "AUTHOR": "Otto Dix", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?", "AUTHOR": "Lou Reed", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Kasparov", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Degas", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hagler", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Humphrey", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?", "AUTHOR": "David Foster Wallace", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hughes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Palin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art must take reality by surprise.", "AUTHOR": "Francoise Sagan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Emir Kusturica", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Martin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Magritte", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "All I owe the world is my art.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.", "AUTHOR": "Remy de Gourmont", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine L'Engle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine L'Engle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Edward Brown", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Balfour", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think good art does come from a dark place.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I view art as an inspirational tool.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kincade", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "What is art but a way of seeing?", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Wedekind", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Marc", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of communication is the language of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Humes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to collect modern art.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Renfro", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Idol", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Brooks", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Erhard", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "art" }, { "QUOTE": "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.", "AUTHOR": "Wade Boggs", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Selye", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Cowell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Pink isn't just a color, it's an attitude!", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Nimoy", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad attitudes will ruin your team.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitudes are more important than facts.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Diane von Furstenberg", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude determines the altitude of life.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.", "AUTHOR": "John N. Mitchell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.", "AUTHOR": "James Truslow Adams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Peabo Bryson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Ferrigno", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Addams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Brennan, Jr.", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny is an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Fowler", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The only disability in life is a bad attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Neal", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.", "AUTHOR": "Veronica Lake", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Hume", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Adams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.", "AUTHOR": "Wade Boggs", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Anderson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Popper", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.", "AUTHOR": "Lita Ford", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Gore", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Grizzard", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.", "AUTHOR": "Hollis Stacy", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Hutchence", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a question of keeping one's eyes and ears open and watching how other people play the game. They're watching me too, to see what my attitude is like.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dance", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Angus Young", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Zetkin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Raphael Cohen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Thunders", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Willem de Kooning", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.", "AUTHOR": "Asa Gray", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Surfers have the most attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.", "AUTHOR": "James Truslow Adams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.", "AUTHOR": "Summer Altice", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.", "AUTHOR": "E. F. Schumacher", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Marjory Stoneman Douglas", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Heather O'Reilly", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.", "AUTHOR": "Satish Kumar", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Spitz", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Panetta", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Birtwistle", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.", "AUTHOR": "Yousuf Karsh", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Fleeshman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dean Anderson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Sauckel", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Rush", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was bringing my attitude as a regular person 'cause this is my attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Danzig", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Evans", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Louboutin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lou Retton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Eagleburger", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes.", "AUTHOR": "Geddy Lee", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.", "AUTHOR": "Kgalema Motlanthe", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Warne", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Romano", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Marceau", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what's funny to me? Attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Revson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.", "AUTHOR": "Waylon Jennings", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Vardalos", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they only have boys, and they have the same attitude toward women they always had, you know? And I don't play that... My girls, you mess with them? I will bury you underground.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Ashmore", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Wicks", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Spassky", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Garr", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Louboutin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Clarke Duncan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.", "AUTHOR": "Lita Ford", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Richard", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Zombie", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Isherwood", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Bateman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son's perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Sewell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Beck", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Diamond", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.", "AUTHOR": "Emmylou Harris", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Brown Findlay", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.", "AUTHOR": "John Grierson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bogut", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.", "AUTHOR": "Sade Adu", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.", "AUTHOR": "George H. Mead", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Quigley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'", "AUTHOR": "Sally Hawkins", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Buscemi", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Spitz", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Lewis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Judd", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Herzl", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.", "AUTHOR": "John Schlesinger", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Pride", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Hackford", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clooney", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Marino", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'", "AUTHOR": "Carson Daly", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.", "AUTHOR": "John Cale", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'", "AUTHOR": "Dwight Schultz", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.", "AUTHOR": "Big Boi", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.", "AUTHOR": "Robert McChesney", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.", "AUTHOR": "August Wilson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Maier", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I'm racing, to be keep myself more under control.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Maier", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl James", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mandelson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.", "AUTHOR": "E. P. Thompson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Taylor", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Campbell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.", "AUTHOR": "Dar Williams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.", "AUTHOR": "John McGahern", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Richardson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Khan", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Adu", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Birtwistle", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Birtwistle", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.", "AUTHOR": "Gemma Arterton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bartiromo", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Jaspers", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.", "AUTHOR": "Larisa Oleynik", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Edgerton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Lita Ford", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Long", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Gless", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Treat Williams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Taylor", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.", "AUTHOR": "W. Averell Harriman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Stockett", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I like England more than I did when I left. It's become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they don't give you a hard time.", "AUTHOR": "Teddy Thompson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Burton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.", "AUTHOR": "Antony Sher", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Press", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Murphy", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they'll never be eclipsed.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Green", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Eckersley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo del Toro", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Heath", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Veeck", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Flutie", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.", "AUTHOR": "James Cromwell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Parker", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Biehn", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Derringer", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Elliot Richardson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.", "AUTHOR": "Grandmaster Flash", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Harris", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Wundt", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wynn", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksander Kwasniewski", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Fishman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Fishman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn't remember the interview.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kinsley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Greene", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lamm", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.", "AUTHOR": "Tobey Maguire", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Shelby", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Lindsay", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.", "AUTHOR": "PSY", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Hanna", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Kosinski", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ramsey", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Frazier", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Tatyana Tolstaya", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood's a very weird place. I think there's less of everything except for attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Cain", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Cain", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?", "AUTHOR": "Clifford D. Simak", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have a young attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Morita", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lowe", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lowe", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip Noyce", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santelli", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.", "AUTHOR": "Martin C. Smith", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Carr", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Romer", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.", "AUTHOR": "Bram Cohen", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Chase", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Brown", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Roberts", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Witt", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, 'My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.'", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Neville-Jones", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Norm MacDonald", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.", "AUTHOR": "David Sanborn", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Garton Ash", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves.", "AUTHOR": "James Welch", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shilton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.", "AUTHOR": "James Woods", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Chapman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Mumba", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Keane", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Baskin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been a change in attitude, though.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Petrie", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I'd like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy F. Cahill", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Ed McMahon", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Posey", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Lidle", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lambert", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.", "AUTHOR": "Francine Prose", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hillerman", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Sky", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie Huntington-Whiteley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.", "AUTHOR": "Len G. Murray", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not get very far with this attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Cartwright", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmet Davutoglu", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.", "AUTHOR": "Koo Stark", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Semel", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Adams", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Brinkley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Raven", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Ann Emerson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Twitchell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Simmons", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Baselitz", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brown", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Carr", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Bart Starr", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.", "AUTHOR": "Don Baylor", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Bok", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Griffith", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.", "AUTHOR": "Henry S. Haskins", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Mars", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're in good hands. There's definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone's got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Crystal Chappell", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Gould", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Dine", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.", "AUTHOR": "Nicos Anastasiades", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Mauldin", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Kelley", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth More", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon A. Walters", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.", "AUTHOR": "William Griffith Wilson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.", "AUTHOR": "Vic Snyder", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Willis", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Kun", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Malick", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.", "AUTHOR": "Tomas Borge", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.", "AUTHOR": "Pim Fortuyn", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.", "AUTHOR": "Ferguson Jenkins", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Holly Compton", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.", "AUTHOR": "Bessie Head", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Barry", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Aston", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.", "AUTHOR": "William Minto", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Rebel Wilson", "GENRE": "attitude" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "To love beauty is to see light.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Peet", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Roiphe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Smith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and folly are old companions.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Rare is the union of beauty and purity.", "AUTHOR": "Juvenal", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty awakens the soul to act.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.", "AUTHOR": "George Meredith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty has a lot to do with character.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.", "AUTHOR": "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is not caused. It is.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.", "AUTHOR": "Munshi Premchand", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the promise of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A women's greatest asset is her beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Comfort", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is power a smile is its sword.", "AUTHOR": "John Ray", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Machado", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a fragile gift.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is less important than quality.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ormandy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Chamberlain", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Dior", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is whatever gives joy.", "AUTHOR": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Weldon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.", "AUTHOR": "James Caan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.", "AUTHOR": "Ellsworth Huntington", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.", "AUTHOR": "Anouk Aimee", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.", "AUTHOR": "Priscilla Presley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.", "AUTHOR": "Albrecht Durer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Things are beautiful if you love them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Anne Porter", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Integrity reveals beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Leonard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Goodness is beauty in the best estate.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.", "AUTHOR": "George William Russell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "How goodness heightens beauty!", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Russell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.", "AUTHOR": "Traci Bingham", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsten Dunst", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!", "AUTHOR": "Barry Cornwall", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Berenson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is only skin deep.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Overbury", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.", "AUTHOR": "Edward F. Halifax", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Laetitia Casta", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Keri Russell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.", "AUTHOR": "H. R. Giger", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the beauty of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty without expression is boring.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Britten", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Ingelow", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The perception of beauty is a moral test.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.", "AUTHOR": "Rumi", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a thing of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Aoki", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Exuberance is beauty.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.", "AUTHOR": "Joanne Woodward", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Steichen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.", "AUTHOR": "Hazrat Inayat Khan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Hagen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.", "AUTHOR": "Redd Foxx", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.", "AUTHOR": "Dimebag Darrell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Dee", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Nonsense and beauty have close connections.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Grace in women has more effect than beauty.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.", "AUTHOR": "George Gissing", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Shinichi Suzuki", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the lover's gift.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Wolf", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just the physical attributes that they have - this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor - or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Tobey Maguire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.", "AUTHOR": "Nikolai Gogol", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Ochs", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to education is the experience of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Ayers", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Walk on a rainbow trail walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Motherwell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Crawford", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Fleming", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.", "AUTHOR": "Serge Gainsbourg", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "George Bancroft", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The pain passes, but the beauty remains.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Renoir", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Farnham", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.", "AUTHOR": "John Zimmerman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Franti", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Mowry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Duchamp", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and the devil are the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Stopes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Luc Godard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In art economy is always beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.", "AUTHOR": "Petrarch", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.", "AUTHOR": "Jack London", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is not just physical.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Mahler", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul Gaultier", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.", "AUTHOR": "Gian Carlo Menotti", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Way Teale", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.", "AUTHOR": "Theophile Gautier", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Martin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.", "AUTHOR": "David Allan Coe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Rendell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Black beauty - he's a dark horse.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Lindsay", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical beauty is such a strange thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jock Sturges", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Dobrev", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty can come in strange forms.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I've written four beauty books as well.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Geertz", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Penrose", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a role and function for beauty in our time.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward James Olmos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.", "AUTHOR": "Giuseppe Garibaldi", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Young", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Kempton", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A representative is free delivery she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ford", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Power and beauty come from a very deep place.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.", "AUTHOR": "Ossie Davis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Ennis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Alexis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.", "AUTHOR": "Ouida", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Sun", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!", "AUTHOR": "Beyonce Knowles", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Debussy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Van Vechten", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.", "AUTHOR": "Pitbull", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Crow", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolf Otto", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Wagner", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Carrere", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Carrere", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.", "AUTHOR": "Paz Vega", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Novak", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Witten", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Norris", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Albrecht Durer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Hall", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Figgis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Panettiere", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Musil", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Way Teale", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.", "AUTHOR": "Mariel Hemingway", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty comes from the inside.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Genet", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Gondry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.", "AUTHOR": "Mary MacLane", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Burke", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth St. Denis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.", "AUTHOR": "LeRoy Neiman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'", "AUTHOR": "Robin Roberts", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned that acting is not about beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanna Arquette", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.", "AUTHOR": "John Millington Synge", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Steele", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Stipe", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Grier", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Grier", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.", "AUTHOR": "James Weldon Johnson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.", "AUTHOR": "Christo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.", "AUTHOR": "Christo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stresemann", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.", "AUTHOR": "Rem Koolhaas", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.", "AUTHOR": "John Galsworthy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Butler", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Armour", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Thompson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Arguello", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I've been using it for 5 years and that's all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some color.", "AUTHOR": "Alessandra Ambrosio", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Estrich", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Elfman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Oberst", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "John Philip Sousa", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.", "AUTHOR": "John Philip Sousa", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Griffith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'", "AUTHOR": "America Ferrera", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Benigni", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Courbet", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Wainwright", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.", "AUTHOR": "Elliott Erwitt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Orbach", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Sirk", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Benson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Stone", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Witten", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.", "AUTHOR": "Fanny Brice", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Barnes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Spencer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Swanepoel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.", "AUTHOR": "Cristina Saralegui", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Asher", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.", "AUTHOR": "Farrah Fawcett", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my beauty. It's not my fault.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Garavani", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Louise Parker", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Chen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Toomer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.", "AUTHOR": "David Remnick", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Wolf", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Wolf", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Reichert", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Morris", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Albrecht Durer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Margaret Cameron", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.", "AUTHOR": "Northrop Frye", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Panettiere", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Moore", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Byrne", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Platt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Mosley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa See", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa See", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Vigny", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Hannan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Heche", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.", "AUTHOR": "William Wycherley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.", "AUTHOR": "Fan Binbing", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dirac", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Scott", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.", "AUTHOR": "Paul D. Boyer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Form follows beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Weir", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Ive", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Roth", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bridges", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hamlisch", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Maltin", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Perrotta", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Powell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Herzen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.", "AUTHOR": "Mstislav Rostropovich", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Mstislav Rostropovich", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.", "AUTHOR": "David Amram", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.", "AUTHOR": "Jenifer Lewis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.", "AUTHOR": "Jenifer Lewis", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.", "AUTHOR": "John Erskine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Cayley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Beard", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Gardiner", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.", "AUTHOR": "Erika Slezak", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Collins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.", "AUTHOR": "Minna Antrim", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Zawinski", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Nivio Zarlenga", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.", "AUTHOR": "Jung Chang", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.", "AUTHOR": "Natalia Vodianova", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Rush", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Huffman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Huffman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.", "AUTHOR": "Evangeline Lilly", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Rice", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Tila Tequila", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.", "AUTHOR": "Tila Tequila", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Chapin Carpenter", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is not everything!", "AUTHOR": "Chita Rivera", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Karolina Kurkova", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Wren", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne Zuniga", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Enos", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Hawkins", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evangelista", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Holden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Wilson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.", "AUTHOR": "Junichiro Tanizaki", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.", "AUTHOR": "Yusef Lateef", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Udall", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Carter", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Metheny", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Nash", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.", "AUTHOR": "George H. Mead", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.", "AUTHOR": "Nadine Gordimer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in one ideal beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Posen", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Kristel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Smalls", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Alekhine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Alekhine", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.", "AUTHOR": "John Lone", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Haden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Haden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.", "AUTHOR": "Allison Janney", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.", "AUTHOR": "Saskya Pandita", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.", "AUTHOR": "Colleen Atwood", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Gee", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.", "AUTHOR": "Aasif Mandvi", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!", "AUTHOR": "Jody Watley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Chrisette Michele", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Sanger", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Schneiderman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Henstridge", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.", "AUTHOR": "Andrej Pejic", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.", "AUTHOR": "Bar Refaeli", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Bar Refaeli", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.", "AUTHOR": "Florenz Ziegfeld", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In all my career, in my ups and downs, I've never had a beauty campaign. This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign. It made me feel really great.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Hatcher", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Hatcher", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Hatcher", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Courbet", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Walcott", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Prior", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Thompson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Tate", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.", "AUTHOR": "Leni Riefenstahl", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Legrand", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Jorja Fox", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Moses Mendelssohn", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bello", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Asquith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Durance", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Durance", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lambert", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say beauty is only sin deep.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Hugh Munro", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Haas", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.", "AUTHOR": "John Masefield", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Russell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Curry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McDonnell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!", "AUTHOR": "Joel McHale", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Colman", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.", "AUTHOR": "James Nasmyth", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Churchill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Daniel", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Williamson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Meltzer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.", "AUTHOR": "Naya Rivera", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.", "AUTHOR": "Paulina Porizkova", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.", "AUTHOR": "James De La Vega", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Jamison", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.", "AUTHOR": "James Beattie", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Vandermeer", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.", "AUTHOR": "David Gower", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kincade", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kincade", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold fast to youth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Arden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher McCandless", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Rice Burroghs", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Feuerstein", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Narada Michael Walden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.", "AUTHOR": "Narada Michael Walden", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a party animal I took my job as Miss USA very seriously... Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I'm a beauty queen, you're also an unofficial ambassador, and there's a lot of pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Rima Fakih", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.", "AUTHOR": "Ally Condie", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Figo", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.", "AUTHOR": "Grant-Lee Phillips", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Todt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Todt", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Jarry", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I love Beauty I am young.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Davies", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.", "AUTHOR": "Francine Pascal", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Jamison", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.", "AUTHOR": "Max Bill", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Battista Alberti", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Dodie Smith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not out here to win a beauty contest.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Gibson", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Ella R. Bloor", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Holly", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ocean", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Lew Wallace", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Latham", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!", "AUTHOR": "Meagan Good", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Smith", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.", "AUTHOR": "Guglielmo Marconi", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Hamm", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.", "AUTHOR": "James Randolph Adams", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of the past belongs to the past.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Bourke-White", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Serge Haroche", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Vivien", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca da Rimini", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Mathers", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stickley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stickley", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Brittain", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I think love and beauty are what life is all about.", "AUTHOR": "John Derek", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Harold Hardy", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.", "AUTHOR": "David Rittenhouse", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Gold", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Barker", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Max Roach", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Boyd", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.", "AUTHOR": "Richard H. Baker", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Katharine Green", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Katharine Green", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.", "AUTHOR": "Junichiro Tanizaki", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.", "AUTHOR": "Marston Morse", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Stein", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.", "AUTHOR": "Laurette Taylor", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Carmichael Stopes", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen Butler", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.", "AUTHOR": "Peter York", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what the secret to longevity as an actress is. It's more than talent and beauty. Maybe it's the audience seeing itself in you.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Blondell", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Korda", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.", "AUTHOR": "Dame Edith Evans", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Albeniz", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Philips", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.", "AUTHOR": "L. Wolfe Gilbert", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Venning", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Prager", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Kozar", "GENRE": "beauty" }, { "QUOTE": "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best road to progress is freedom's road.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best revenge is massive success.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to predict the future is to create it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Living well is the best revenge.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man does his best, what else is there?", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Clever men are good, but they are not the best.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst men often give the best advice.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Khamarov", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A problem is a chance for you to do your best.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.", "AUTHOR": "Art Buchwald", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll live. Only the best get killed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Crane", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.", "AUTHOR": "George Halas", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bresson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Just do what you do best.", "AUTHOR": "Red Auerbach", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Cary Grant", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is the best meditation.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Sweat", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best proof of love is trust.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the best policy.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the best government that money can buy.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am easily satisfied with the very best.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way out is always through.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperity is the best protector of principle.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows best knows how little he knows.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best smell in the world is that man that you love.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "But men are men the best sometimes forget.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Hunger is the best pickle.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Fatigue is the best pillow.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That government is best which governs least.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Prefontaine", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Our best thoughts come from others.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Martin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best provision for old age.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "William Julius Wilson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Grenville Kleiser", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Isaac Rubin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Haniel Long", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to hold a man is in your arms.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Pelzer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Look your best - who said love is blind?", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way out of a difficulty is through it.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best is the enemy of the good.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck marches with those who give their very best.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "John Frusciante", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In art the best is good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad von Gesner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You teach best what you most need to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Orne Jewett", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalynn Carter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hitt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Gable", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Guinn", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Toleration is the best religion.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.", "AUTHOR": "Al Lopez", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to know God is to love many things.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a mediocre person is always at his best.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A boy's story is the best that is ever told.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No man fails who does his best.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Harper", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Rogers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.", "AUTHOR": "George F. Kennan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The wildest colts make the best horses.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best interpreter of the law is custom.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A majority is always better than the best repartee.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Baxter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.", "AUTHOR": "Tab Hunter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.", "AUTHOR": "Rip Torn", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is true wisdom's best reply.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Grahame", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.", "AUTHOR": "Anne M. Mulcahy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The human body is the best picture of the human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Land really is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Olsen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Russell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best vision is insight.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.", "AUTHOR": "Frida Kahlo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.", "AUTHOR": "James Truslow Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Daley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.", "AUTHOR": "Selena Gomez", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Maria is the best reason to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Boulanger", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Stern", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best things in life are silly.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The education of women is the best way to save the environment.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman's at best a contradiction still.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Nielsen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Clay", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the best way for me to say I love you.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Mathieu", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best of seers is he who guesses well.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Ivana Trump", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin Fairless", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Fenelon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada's the best country in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The days you work are the best days.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best mind-altering drug is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He who keeps his cool best wins.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.", "AUTHOR": "Redd Foxx", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that making love is the best form of exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Cary Grant", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Walking is man's best medicine.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.", "AUTHOR": "A. A. Milne", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best teacher is your last mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.", "AUTHOR": "Mena Suvari", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Mechanization best serves mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The waste basket is the writer's best friend.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Always do your best.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Elizabeth", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.", "AUTHOR": "Jasper Carrott", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Way", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Jada Pinkett Smith", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Kerry", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Guitry", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadette Devlin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best protection any woman can have... is courage.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Clark", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.", "AUTHOR": "James Montgomery", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.", "AUTHOR": "Don Henley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is best to live however one can be.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hall", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Angle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.", "AUTHOR": "John Webster", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.", "AUTHOR": "Don Hewitt", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hecht", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.", "AUTHOR": "Stefan Banach", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Fieri", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Wallace", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the best means we have of digesting time.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Turner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Yeager", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.", "AUTHOR": "William Styron", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my best, and God did the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Hattie McDaniel", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Bettelheim", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett Hale", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.", "AUTHOR": "Sheena Easton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Callahan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The bold adventurer succeeds the best.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel I'd like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Susannah York", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Chamberlain", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best of us must sometimes eat our words.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Josephine Baker", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.", "AUTHOR": "Soichiro Honda", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Pauling", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Gallagher", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shearer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!", "AUTHOR": "Marie Corelli", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sondheim", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Feldon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.", "AUTHOR": "Hypatia", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "America is the best half-educated country in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas M. Butler", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Gordon Low", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.", "AUTHOR": "Athenaeus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Veeck", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schwab", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Earle", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Marshall", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.", "AUTHOR": "Harold W. Dodds", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Blades", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Clough", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Walsh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Levinson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl James", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.", "AUTHOR": "George Grosz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.", "AUTHOR": "Alben W. Barkley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has done his best has done everything.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schwab", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Old friends are best.", "AUTHOR": "John Selden", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The things we remember best are those better forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He who laughs most, learns best.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Rothstein", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bach", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.", "AUTHOR": "John Walsh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think guitar is the best thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hughes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Get the best people and train them well.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McNealy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.", "AUTHOR": "Henry J. Kaiser", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who know the least obey the best.", "AUTHOR": "George Farquhar", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Smith", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best place to work in football is England.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My siblings are my best friends.", "AUTHOR": "America Ferrera", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time to make friends is before you need them.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Barrymore", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert V. Prochnow", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I will give you the best I have.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Marshall", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best director is the one you don't see.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Ingalls Wilder", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to live with both my selves as best I may.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm married to my best friend!", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is best when you are in love.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moriarty", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.", "AUTHOR": "Bhumibol Adulyadej", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.", "AUTHOR": "Charles A. Beard", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.", "AUTHOR": "William Hung", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Testing oneself is best when done alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.", "AUTHOR": "Djuna Barnes", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Example is the best precept.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.", "AUTHOR": "Manny Pacquiao", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.", "AUTHOR": "James Monroe", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Nearing", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hamilton", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kerry", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.", "AUTHOR": "Morrie Schwartz", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Smith", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Scarlett Johansson", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Wamp", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "What I love best in life is new starts.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "best" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Hagar", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Byrne", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing better than singing is more singing.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'", "AUTHOR": "Sam Levenson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Hutton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.", "AUTHOR": "John Oates", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "There is still no cure for the common birthday.", "AUTHOR": "John Glenn", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Let them eat cake.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Antoinette", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "New Year's Day is every man's birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Your children need your presence more than your presents.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Being seventy is not a sin.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate birthdays.", "AUTHOR": "Zane Grey", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Love the giver more than the gift.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.", "AUTHOR": "Navjot Singh Sidhu", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Jaspers", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hopkins", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Johnson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?", "AUTHOR": "John Heywood", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Stuart", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Stuart", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.", "AUTHOR": "Art Buchwald", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Warrick", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.", "AUTHOR": "Isla Fisher", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Joe DiMaggio", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Russo", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I left school on my 15th birthday.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.", "AUTHOR": "David Horowitz", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Wallace", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rose", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.", "AUTHOR": "Uwe Boll", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Burton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Marian McPartland", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Murphy", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Macfadyen", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.", "AUTHOR": "Emmy Rossum", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Cronkite", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Weber", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Chaz Bono", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Sutton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Blair Underwood", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.", "AUTHOR": "Paulina Porizkova", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Menino", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Bee", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Taylor", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.", "AUTHOR": "Phylicia Rashad", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby McFerrin", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Sims", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.", "AUTHOR": "O. J. Simpson", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Sweet", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Sweet", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Tierney", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Sherman", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Gallo", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'", "AUTHOR": "Christina Hendricks", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Rachel Wood", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Barks", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.", "AUTHOR": "Diane von Furstenberg", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.", "AUTHOR": "John L. Phillips", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.", "AUTHOR": "James Rollins", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse McCartney", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.", "AUTHOR": "Bindi Irwin", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.", "AUTHOR": "Bindi Irwin", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Barton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Levy", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.", "AUTHOR": "Goran Ivanisevic", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!", "AUTHOR": "Connie Britton", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Kreuk", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Cutter", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Townsend", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Antin", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Paulina Porizkova", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Macomber", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.", "AUTHOR": "Thayer David", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Thibodeaux", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lord", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.", "AUTHOR": "Otis Blackwell", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "And I was very shy as a kid if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.", "AUTHOR": "Cody Horn", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Plemons", "GENRE": "birthday" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Walton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "All lasting business is built on friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to put a ding in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Isaac Rubin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.", "AUTHOR": "Henry R. Luce", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our favorite holding period is forever.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is a combination of war and sport.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.", "AUTHOR": "Max de Pree", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar R. Fiedler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A company is only as good as the people it keeps.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Aiken", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brokaw", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Carpe per diem - seize the check.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I buy when other people are selling.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Boren", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Debbi Fields", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Blaine Lee", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lem", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.", "AUTHOR": "A. C. Benson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Word of mouth is the best medium of all.", "AUTHOR": "William Bernbach", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Blaine Lee", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "So little done, so much to do.", "AUTHOR": "Cecil Rhodes", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Jowett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tournier", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Real riches are the riches possessed inside.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is in itself a power.", "AUTHOR": "Garet Garrett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Dauten", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ross", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Appleton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lem", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar R. Fiedler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business can be a source of progressive change.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Greenfield", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Kapor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have to forecast, forecast often.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar R. Fiedler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Nelson Bolles", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Sikorsky", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul A. Volcker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McNealy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Anderson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.", "AUTHOR": "Blaine Lee", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A man should never neglect his family for business.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The first mistake in public business is the going into it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Grenville Kleiser", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.", "AUTHOR": "John Hancock", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If I love you, what business is it of yours?", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is the salt of life.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In business for yourself, not by yourself.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.", "AUTHOR": "Al Lopez", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the business of barbarians.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My business is to prevent the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business today consists in persuading crowds.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of a business is to create a customer.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of America is business.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is spiritual. The music business is not.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.", "AUTHOR": "Colonel Sanders", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is not just doing deals business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.", "AUTHOR": "A. A. Milne", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What other people think about me is not my business.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Smits", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Morrison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.", "AUTHOR": "Romain Rolland", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is over and Business is Business.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Chamberlain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Blagojevich", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The real business of life is trying to understand each other.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Clough", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.", "AUTHOR": "Dwayne Johnson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Beckett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Good design is good business.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A strategy is something like, an innovative new product globalization, taking your products around the world be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch you can motivate people with be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're eight years old nothing is your business.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Bruce", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.", "AUTHOR": "Roy L. Smith", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Holiday", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.", "AUTHOR": "Michael LeBoeuf", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into business at all.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The comic book world is a tough business.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Dolley Madison", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Flair", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Andretti", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman' Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.", "AUTHOR": "Anthea Turner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.", "AUTHOR": "Arsenio Hall", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Dalton Trumbo", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonso Jackson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If I wasn't doing this I'd be making documentaries about wildlife and other subjects that interest me.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Piquet", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Flair", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is the Viagra of big business.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Trudeau", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In today's social business marketplace Facebook is one of the best places for nonprofits to be discovered and connect with a larger audience on the basis of shared values. So to get started, a non-profit should launch a Facebook page and invite your existing real world community to connect your cause and their networks.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Porter", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "God will forgive me that's his business.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.", "AUTHOR": "Rocco DiSpirito", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Hill", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Jaworski", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.", "AUTHOR": "Izaak Walton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.", "AUTHOR": "Duke of Wellington", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Rogers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Kuan Yew", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is just show business for ugly people.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Dean", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and the music business are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Interior design is a business of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Bennett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The movie business is a big gamble.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Arden", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santelli", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What other people think of me is none of my business.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.", "AUTHOR": "Charlton Heston", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Kiam", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Kiam", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.", "AUTHOR": "Rihanna", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate show business.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Lively", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Paley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this business than some actors have.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Wallach", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.", "AUTHOR": "Edna Ferber", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A shady business never yields a sunny life.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Barton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.", "AUTHOR": "Kit Bond", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fonda", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is tough you need tough guys.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Stone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My home has always been show business.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really in the excuse business.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cantalupo", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.", "AUTHOR": "James Sinegal", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Bower", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "An Wang", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.", "AUTHOR": "Shannen Doherty", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Grassley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Rohm", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are an expensive business.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If bad things are going to be said about me, I have to bear that. If I don't understand that it's part of being in show business, then I'd better go work in a bank.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kilby", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Reza Pahlavi", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Steele", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If an Internet company steals content, they shut it down. And let me tell you, Apple France, Yahoo France or Google France, none of them have gone out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Burrell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.", "AUTHOR": "Clement Mok", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Morrissey", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I started cooking in kitchens right out of high school, and I was lucky to work with a lot of great people, but I had no idea it would turn into this. Of course no one should go into this business because they want to be the next Emeril.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.", "AUTHOR": "William Graham Sumner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you say, 'I'm going to cut this song because I know the teenagers are going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.", "AUTHOR": "Isak Dinesen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I find the business world hard.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Lynch", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.", "AUTHOR": "Charles W. Eliot", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.", "AUTHOR": "John Cage", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine the Great", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The career stuff is for business people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Ralph Augustine", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.", "AUTHOR": "Rocco DiSpirito", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manchin", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Wellesley", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's show business. No show, no business.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We need comprehensive reform that will make America the best place in the world to invest and do business.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Ice T", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hagler", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and which we couldn't afford, Democratic leaders say they need more money, which they intend to take from small business, even though small businesses create the majority of new jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Houdini", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Parker", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!", "AUTHOR": "Don Johnson", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "My business doesn't keep me warm at night.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been a business person.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I went onto reality TV as a business decision.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Nielsen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Garavani", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "business" }, { "QUOTE": "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.", "AUTHOR": "George Best", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The cars we drive say a lot about us.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.", "AUTHOR": "E. L. Doctorow", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Rossi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Fussell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Danzig", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.", "AUTHOR": "James Cagney", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark-Paul Gosselaar", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs, I've been racing cars a little bit, which has been fun.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Barney", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Lopez", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolf Diesel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Gibb", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.", "AUTHOR": "Yuan T. Lee", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.", "AUTHOR": "Don Van Vliet", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltrane", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Fast cars are my only vice.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bay", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.", "AUTHOR": "Paul D. Boyer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.", "AUTHOR": "Rip Torn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Osborne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Johnston", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.", "AUTHOR": "John Searle", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Sinclair", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.", "AUTHOR": "Bud Abbott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.", "AUTHOR": "Larry McMurtry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.", "AUTHOR": "Ingvar Kamprad", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.", "AUTHOR": "Brock Yates", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.", "AUTHOR": "Brock Yates", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.", "AUTHOR": "Brock Yates", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A car for every purse and purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred P. Sloan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Johnson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Arnold", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.", "AUTHOR": "James Norman Hall", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Never have more children than you have car windows.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Philip", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hampton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Philip K. Dick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Rossi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Andretti", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Holiday", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Porsche", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Ramone", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.", "AUTHOR": "River Phoenix", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Cooper", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Cline", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a car but it's not important.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've crashed my car three times.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I drive an electric car.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how to drive a car.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been to a race car race before.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Sweetland", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy West", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be remembered for the work that I've done, rather than the car accidents that I've gotten into, the men that I've not dated - or the man that I have.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My first car was a motorcycle.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.''", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Goodman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Staubach", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to feel comfortable with your car. You have to go into turn one, every lap, with confidence. You have to be sure of yourself and your equipment.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Tynan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.", "AUTHOR": "Buck Baker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.", "AUTHOR": "Suzi Quatro", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Gift", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanne Cash", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a bit of a car freak.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Lemmon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.", "AUTHOR": "June Carter Cash", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.", "AUTHOR": "Ice T", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Dre", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork other times, like a car accident.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Roberts", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't actually own a car.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bishop", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even own a car.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.", "AUTHOR": "Sheena Easton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Wallace", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Campbell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't purposely speed, but I might go over by five or six miles an hour from time to time. It doesn't give me a buzz driving on normal roads, because I can't go fast enough. It's never going to be anything like an F1 car.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Newton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, 'Today is what I have.'", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Krauss", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I will die in a car crash.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Pietersen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Mansell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.", "AUTHOR": "David Millar", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bannister", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a tricky place, especially the last sector. I wasn't happy in practice. I wasn't happy with the car and I wasn't happy with myself. But I always thought there was more in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "All in all it was a smooth race, the car was very well balanced. I'm very proud to be the first winner here in India.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no secret, once we go to qualifying, we all seem to enjoy it. Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never drive in a great big car people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler.", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Kravis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "People go to car races to watch the crashes.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Harrison", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!", "AUTHOR": "Taraji P. Henson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Bode Miller", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big potato chip girl. I don't like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I've got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can't give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Uecker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.", "AUTHOR": "Sergio Aragones", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Seger", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Gordon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Mercer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Martinez", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Brickell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Isaak", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Wood", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Smart Car is awesome. The only problem is I've been on the freeway and felt like I was going to be blown away like a Tim Hortons coffee cup, so I may have to upgrade to a Mini Cooper - something a little stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?", "AUTHOR": "Oskar Schindler", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Jackson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Brownstein", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.", "AUTHOR": "Manfred von Richthofen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Haggard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Haggard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There were times when I thought I would never own a car.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Daley", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.", "AUTHOR": "Hakeem Olajuwon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!", "AUTHOR": "Jay Kay", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a case of 'look at me in my car' it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Kay", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Kay", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'", "AUTHOR": "Rosario Dawson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.", "AUTHOR": "John Mellencamp", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Coen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Lady Antebellum and Miranda Lambert - they write from the heart. But it's hard to find a country music lover in L.A. None of my friends really listen to it, and they hate getting in the car with me because I just blast Taylor Swift.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.", "AUTHOR": "Ludacris", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.", "AUTHOR": "William H. Macy", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.", "AUTHOR": "James Hansen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rauschenberg", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cannon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Principal", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Dunn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Hearst", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Swit", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Soderbergh", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it is so difficult right now when you look out on the road and how fast people go and the more and more cars you see out there, for teenagers, you'd think a kid that literally, a few years before, was sitting back in a car seat in the back seat is now behind the wheel.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Hill", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly like have a car that flies like have furniture that is alive.", "AUTHOR": "William Joyce", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to car racing school was phenomenal.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Rodriguez", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Chastain", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.", "AUTHOR": "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of that I don't care when I read in the newspaper that I am colourblind. I went through a red light in my car and I stopped when I before a green light. So I must be really colourblind, eh?", "AUTHOR": "Ruud van Nistelrooy", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didn't. You either moved an abandoned car or you didn't. You either filled a pothole or you didn't. That's what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Scarborough", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Scarborough", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.", "AUTHOR": "Coolio", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel comfortable around every driver out there and each driver is in charge of their own car, but you feel very secure racing the competition out there.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether it's 15th or even if I have a shot at a top 10, protecting that car so we can bring it back when we have to.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just that fun atmosphere, working on the car, being with the guys. This is exactly what I needed.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Hirsch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Jordana Brewster", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.", "AUTHOR": "Jordana Brewster", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.", "AUTHOR": "Jordana Brewster", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Schumacher", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Gold", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Gold", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Gold", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tork", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed El-Erian", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.", "AUTHOR": "Renny Harlin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart. Your car breaks down in the middle of Iowa or somewhere, or Tennessee where I'm from, people want to help each other. Given each opportunity, you see how people come together.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Rossi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever noticed how nice people are at the car wash?! Maybe it's just me, but it makes me happy. Weird, I know!", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Alpert", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Alpert", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a lot of gasoline commercials - Hess, Texaco. I was part of the family in the car, the little brat in the back.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Williams", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.", "AUTHOR": "John Prescott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Cline", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Boys, they can't take my refrigerator now. They'll never get my car now. I paid cash for 'em and they're mine, and I'm keepin' 'em!", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Cline", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Davies", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I allow myself one nice car.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie P. Snow", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "They put chains on me they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Montana", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Clary", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Gregg", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Bonaduce", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Reiser", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelton Reed", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.", "AUTHOR": "John Hickenlooper", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Morris", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Cary", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Konitz", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bartiromo", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.", "AUTHOR": "Muddy Waters", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Gordon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Manuel Fangio", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Jennings", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'", "AUTHOR": "Walter Mosley", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't own a car.", "AUTHOR": "Shepard Smith", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm calling from my car, I'm sorry, I'm like running around like crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Joan Hart", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like listening to music in my car.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Neville", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Fieri", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.", "AUTHOR": "Donal Logue", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Tedder", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?", "AUTHOR": "Cyndi Lauper", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Highsmith", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Perry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.", "AUTHOR": "David Alan Grier", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Hoyle", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Burns", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.", "AUTHOR": "John Moody", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Sawa", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'", "AUTHOR": "Regina Spektor", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Dayne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Partridge", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.", "AUTHOR": "Luc Montagnier", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Trammell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I drive a car that has pleather seats.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Freston", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Summers", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Loud", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.", "AUTHOR": "Mark-Paul Gosselaar", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.", "AUTHOR": "Eric San", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jacky Ickx", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Winters", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever - check the tire pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Rahal", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Rahal", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Widmark", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Cole", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Rapaport", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people go through life without ever knowing.", "AUTHOR": "June Singer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Johnson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Stewart", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Cheney", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Adler", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Stiles", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Barks", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Bachman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Smits", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!", "AUTHOR": "Chris Colfer", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.", "AUTHOR": "Trish Stratus", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have very long legs and I hate driving anything unless it's a boat or an ATV in the jungle. I like to sit in the back of a car, where I can look out the window, answer my emails on my iPad, or hold hands with a pretty girl.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Pigozzi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Pigozzi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.", "AUTHOR": "Rich Lowry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a new little stray dog that I've had for about a month now. His name is Mikey Mohawk - he's this little terrier with a natural Mohawk. My friend found him hit by a car on Pico Boulevard.", "AUTHOR": "Krysten Ritter", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Enos", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Masterson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.", "AUTHOR": "Cuba Gooding, Jr.", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.", "AUTHOR": "James Belushi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Martin McGuinness", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Winwood", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hall", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.", "AUTHOR": "Len Goodman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.", "AUTHOR": "Len Goodman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Dixon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Dixon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.", "AUTHOR": "Sherry Stringfield", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Indy car racing is much more aggressive.", "AUTHOR": "Emerson Fittipaldi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.", "AUTHOR": "Emerson Fittipaldi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.", "AUTHOR": "Emerson Fittipaldi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to visualize a second or two ahead of your car what line you are taking, what you are going to do, before you get there because it comes too fast.", "AUTHOR": "Emerson Fittipaldi", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.", "AUTHOR": "Sergey Brin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Milonakis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.", "AUTHOR": "David Knopfler", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Astin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I love singin' in the car, it just makes me feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Scotty McCreery", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Paul", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.", "AUTHOR": "Max Greenfield", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.", "AUTHOR": "Manny Pacquiao", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some bling on and whatever, and said something about a party down in Malibu and asked if I would jump in his car and go to the party. All I could think was, 'Who are you? I don't know you, and I don't care about how good your car is.'", "AUTHOR": "Yvonne Strahovski", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Barnes", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Perry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sherman-Palladino", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Reinhart", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I drive under a yellow light, I always kiss my finger and tap it on the roof of the car.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Padalecki", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.", "AUTHOR": "Al Jarreau", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.", "AUTHOR": "Aimee Mann", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Polanski", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.", "AUTHOR": "Serge Schmemann", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Davis", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Bakula", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!", "AUTHOR": "Rick Yune", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Mancuso", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Mason", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Mason", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Mason", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Mason", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.", "AUTHOR": "Beverley Mitchell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Applegate", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a bridge is the auditioning - the waiting around.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Messina", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Black", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models.", "AUTHOR": "Aly Raisman", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.", "AUTHOR": "Frances McDormand", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Irons", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything officers go through in any chase anywhere in the country, but amped up 100 times! I'm right in the thick of things in a car going like 80 miles an hour, and doing 360s in the middle of the road. It was a wild ride.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Weber", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Chung", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Roberts", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Sheehan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Johnston", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Johnston", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.", "AUTHOR": "Goran Ivanisevic", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.", "AUTHOR": "Caroll Shelby", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'", "AUTHOR": "Caroll Shelby", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.", "AUTHOR": "Dudley Moore", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Lombardo", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.", "AUTHOR": "Linwood Barclay", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!", "AUTHOR": "Linwood Barclay", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Greatbatch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Schumacher", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Mansell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Mansell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck - and women loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Quivers", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Stannard Baker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Abrams", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business.", "AUTHOR": "John Searle", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.", "AUTHOR": "John Searle", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I talk to myself, especially in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pine", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Russell Mead", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.", "AUTHOR": "J. Courtney Sullivan", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.", "AUTHOR": "Ree Drummond", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Lidle", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dance", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.", "AUTHOR": "Elon Musk", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gough", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Griffin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltraine", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When they searched my car, they said that they found a gasoline canister and I think duct tape. Who wouldn't have a gasoline canister on them when driving 3,000 miles across country?", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Austin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Rose", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!", "AUTHOR": "Jaime Hernandez", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Pare", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Chadbourne", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Brown", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durst", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durst", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Cartwright", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "David Leslie", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Kartheiser", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.", "AUTHOR": "Al Unser", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Elmer Bernstein", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald McRaney", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Berry", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.", "AUTHOR": "Paul M. Glaser", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'", "AUTHOR": "Anthony LaPaglia", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Wheldon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Wheldon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Davies", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Ambrose", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Norden", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.", "AUTHOR": "Sterling Marlin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it.", "AUTHOR": "Sterling Marlin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Holt", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.", "AUTHOR": "Burton Cummings", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew P. Harris", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.", "AUTHOR": "Sean William Scott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Sean William Scott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Patrice O'Neal", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!", "AUTHOR": "Mackenzie Crook", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Carver", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Baron Cohen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Kilgallen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Brody Armstrong", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Christine O'Donnell", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Gross", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer to sing in the shower vs. the car. The shower is just steam, you know, its just you, and nature, and no clothing. You know, there's nothing separating you. It's just you, and the voice - you, and the water.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Lusk", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Piquet", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.", "AUTHOR": "John Surtees", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.", "AUTHOR": "John Surtees", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.", "AUTHOR": "John Surtees", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Dixon", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Petty", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Boycott", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Wynn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rice", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rice", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Cummings", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Lindsay-Hogg", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Theroux", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.", "AUTHOR": "Forest Whitaker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Kristensen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Alaina", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Stoll", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.", "AUTHOR": "Al Jardine", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tolkin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Zapruder", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Zapruder", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hunter", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a car that will last 10 years or longer because I totally hate the process of researching, shopping for a new car, and then haggling for the price. I wish I could just snap my fingers and my car is there.", "AUTHOR": "Kiran Ahluwalia", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.", "AUTHOR": "Romany Malco", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McDonald", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.", "AUTHOR": "Gio Gonzalez", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Savage", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.", "AUTHOR": "Mike O'Malley", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Hamilton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Raddatz", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.", "AUTHOR": "Manal al-Sharif", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Corbin", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Callen", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Xavier Niel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Frayn", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Steel", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, my natural habitat is in a car and I am happiest in that environment.", "AUTHOR": "Maria de Villota", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Hurst", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Stewart", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Langton", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.", "AUTHOR": "Rodger Ward", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Shelby", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.", "AUTHOR": "Buck Baker", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Thesz", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Murdoch", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Conti", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Robson Belmont", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Johnson", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Dempsey", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Hill", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.", "AUTHOR": "William Daniels", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Foley", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Smith", "GENRE": "car" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You must be the change you wish to see in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All great change in America begins at the dinner table.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Sheehy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Things do not change we change.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change in all things is sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Wilson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change brings opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Nido Qubein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.", "AUTHOR": "A. C. Benson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.", "AUTHOR": "John A. Simone, Sr.", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing permanent except change.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to make enemies, try to change something.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Shunryu Suzuki", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change before you have to.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Dyson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "True life is lived when tiny changes occur.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Prather", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Branden", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is inevitable. Change is constant.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All I want to do is change the world.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.", "AUTHOR": "Denise McCluggage", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.", "AUTHOR": "Irene Peter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change alone is unchanging.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To change what you get you must change who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.", "AUTHOR": "Irene Peter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are through changing, you are through.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All things must change to something new, to something strange.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People change and forget to tell each other.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "True change takes place in the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is such hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Crystal", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The more things change, the more they are the same.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Astor", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl T. Rowan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Armistead Maupin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.", "AUTHOR": "Owen Feltham", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As with anything creative, change is inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Versace", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Clift", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Meynell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change your thoughts and you change your world.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Dean", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You change your life by changing your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lucado", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Chinese people themselves, they really want change.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can change the world because it can change people.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Things don't have to change the world to be important.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the end result of all true learning.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you blame others, you give up your power to change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so stable as change.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change yourself and your work will seem different.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.", "AUTHOR": "Keri Russell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Layton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Ferguson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Dynamism is a function of change.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Joel A. Barker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Busey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brokaw", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste may change, but inclination never.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.", "AUTHOR": "John D. MacDonald", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People can cry much easier than they can change.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Satire doesn't effect change.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people change when they think they're a star or something.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change of weather is the discourse of fools.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Marcos", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You can change friends but not neighbours.", "AUTHOR": "Atal Bihari Vajpayee", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is always afraid of change.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Nelson Bolles", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Alinsky", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The most useless are those who never change through the years.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Giordano Bruno", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Habits change into character.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, but that's why I change and adapt the way I look.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that my race must change.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Carlos", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Only idiots refuse to change their minds.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Leonard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Black", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing endures but change.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Schuyler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you never change your mind, why have one?", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Reiner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Orbison", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Knopfler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Scargill", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.", "AUTHOR": "Edward James Olmos", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.", "AUTHOR": "Ivor Novello", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Conklin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hamilton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't fear change - embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Being ready isn't enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Deming", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Zahn", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Fraser", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Butterworth", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As you grow older, you change.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I take sounds and change them into words.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Guthrie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Murdock", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic will never change emotion or perception.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.", "AUTHOR": "John Motson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Beard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.", "AUTHOR": "Abel Ferrara", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use to either of you. I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to watch times change!", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Quivers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wagner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously comedic styles do change.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair... Change my name, just see what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't manage - lead change before you have to.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Wylie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You put high heels on and you change.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.", "AUTHOR": "Freda Adler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not trying to change the world just music.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Januszkiewicz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One new feature or fresh take can change everything.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn't change the name of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe we all change over time.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Gift", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You change with the guys you date.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.", "AUTHOR": "Eldridge Cleaver", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.", "AUTHOR": "Primo Levi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Pyle", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Schanberg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cooper", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion they're not afraid of it.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Watts", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.", "AUTHOR": "Medgar Evers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.", "AUTHOR": "Cotton Fitzsimmons", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to change the culture in New York City that's hard enough!", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Ferguson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Valletta", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.", "AUTHOR": "Henry W. Kendall", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.", "AUTHOR": "Charles W. Chesnutt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?", "AUTHOR": "Max de Pree", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Jason Leigh", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Camejo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.", "AUTHOR": "Joy Page", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I like progress but I hate change.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I love change, I need it.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats don't like change without their consent.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Caras", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.", "AUTHOR": "Lea DeLaria", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Debby Boone", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.", "AUTHOR": "George Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Craig", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.", "AUTHOR": "Marge Piercy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Delors", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Quaid", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.", "AUTHOR": "Ossie Davis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Thunders", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Euripedes", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.", "AUTHOR": "Millard Fillmore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A zebra does not change its spots.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Even God cannot change the past.", "AUTHOR": "Agathon", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Arbus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Maxine Waters", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jane", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is one of my favourite words.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ice T", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.", "AUTHOR": "Henry George", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Vereen", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for \"dangerous\" climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Climate change is a global issue - from the point of view of the Earth's climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I'm thinking about change.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Waylon Jennings", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Love", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Marjory Stoneman Douglas", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Auster", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.", "AUTHOR": "Anne M. Mulcahy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.", "AUTHOR": "Ramsey Clark", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Hendricks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Wallace", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a role model now. I didn't know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I've tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don't want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Chabrol", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!", "AUTHOR": "Steven Cojocaru", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If your life changes, we can change the world, too.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.", "AUTHOR": "Namie Amuro", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Lynch", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Sheehan", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You must change in order to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I can change the game.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Abernathy", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Keys Moran", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Porter", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.", "AUTHOR": "Harri Holkeri", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't change. The things around me change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Sanders Peirce", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Cooper", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Ellerbee", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Giuliani", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.", "AUTHOR": "Ivy Compton-Burnett", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "You do have to change things as warfare changes.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "change" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.", "AUTHOR": "Paul J. Meyer", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to write grows with writing.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Armistead Maupin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Jada Pinkett Smith", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out communication is getting through.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Hofmann", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication works for those who work at it.", "AUTHOR": "John Powell", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth St. Denis", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Marceau", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Krause", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.", "AUTHOR": "William Bernbach", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you communicate an idea is different than the way you communicate a product.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is a communication.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Baldwin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.", "AUTHOR": "Shepard Smith", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Erno Rubik", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Moore Colby", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.", "AUTHOR": "William Wiley", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.", "AUTHOR": "William Albert Allard", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.", "AUTHOR": "La Monte Young", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.", "AUTHOR": "Estee Lauder", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Satir", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Tannen", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Sessions", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Banneker", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lesko", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Fieri", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Faraday", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is so key.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny G", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sondheim", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'", "AUTHOR": "James Blunt", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Garton Ash", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Oates", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Morrissey", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.", "AUTHOR": "Erik Qualman", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Lacan", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Flores", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Sorkin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Martin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of communication is the language of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Humes", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Spencer", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Evans", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Barksdale", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Ellison", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Slovo", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Power in America today is control of the means of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Jindal", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Garrett", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.", "AUTHOR": "William Graham Sumner", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny G", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.", "AUTHOR": "John Hench", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. Harvey", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.", "AUTHOR": "John Marshall", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Sturt", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Buscemi", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Dunn", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Simenon", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Judd", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Hidetoshi Nakata", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Bochco", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.", "AUTHOR": "Alva Myrdal", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Watzlawick", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Thompson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Drudge", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.", "AUTHOR": "Hideki Tojo", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.", "AUTHOR": "Dan O'Brien", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria de los Angeles", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tilson Thomas", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Scott", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very open line of communication with both my children.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Estefan", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.", "AUTHOR": "John Warnock", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Powell", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gyllenhaal", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Green", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Keith", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.", "AUTHOR": "Townsend Harris", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James Garrett", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "When I did it with Johnny, it was almost a telepathic kind of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Winter", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Polanyi", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Morris", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Chita Rivera", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Arnold", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Miller", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Malebranche", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Davidson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Davis", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Toller", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin F. Wade", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.", "AUTHOR": "Elaine MacDonald", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Garneau", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.", "AUTHOR": "John Shimkus", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.", "AUTHOR": "Preet Bharara", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Krasner", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McCloud", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother and I always had full adult communication.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Gray", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Ross", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.", "AUTHOR": "John Sweeney", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Joseph Lodge", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Parsons", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Rudman", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Goldwyn", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Gore", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Simenon", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Grant", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gerstner", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.", "AUTHOR": "James Merrill", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Black", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.", "AUTHOR": "Paul A. Volcker", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Kluge", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lehmann", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Priestley", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cuellar", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Ann Davis", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.", "AUTHOR": "William Friedkin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.", "AUTHOR": "John Warnock", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Conrad", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Smith", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Martin", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Weber", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.", "AUTHOR": "Theo de Raadt", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "My approach is so simple every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.", "AUTHOR": "John Davidson", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Gold", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Louise", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Boucher", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Rawls", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Archer", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Shaw", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rosen", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Sidney", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Evans", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Rockwell Kent", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.", "AUTHOR": "Cherrie Moraga", "GENRE": "communication" }, { "QUOTE": "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Gerstner", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The computer is a moron.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Berry", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Royko", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Osborne", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.", "AUTHOR": "Tim O'Reilly", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Moog", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the computer is starting to spread.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Budge", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'", "AUTHOR": "Norman Ralph Augustine", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Kent Conrad", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kantner", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Robert", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nelson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Park", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I just became one with my browser software.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Griffith", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.", "AUTHOR": "Wietse Venema", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.", "AUTHOR": "Jef Raskin", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Budge", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Jarvis", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Icaza", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Olsen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.", "AUTHOR": "Paul R. Ehrlich", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Shapiro", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust the internet.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolette Sheridan", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.", "AUTHOR": "George Stephen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clark", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.", "AUTHOR": "Issey Miyake", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Ellison", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing you're screwed'.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Schneier", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Taft", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Osborne", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Hawkins", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!", "AUTHOR": "Sumner Redstone", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kurzweil", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Plummer", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?", "AUTHOR": "Walter F. Mondale", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.", "AUTHOR": "Jef Raskin", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Jarvis", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.", "AUTHOR": "John Warnock", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.", "AUTHOR": "Bill McCollum", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Olsen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Henderson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Engelbart", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The internet is not for sissies.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Vixie", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "James Hilton", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Brown", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Parnas", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Dougherty", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers make me totally blank out.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I use many different gadgets connected with computers I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know anything about computers.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I get hired to hack into computers now and sometimes it's actually easier than it was years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past, missionaries have traveled to far countries with the message of the gospel - with great hardship and often with the loss of life. In contrast, we can reach millions instantly from the comfort of our homes by merely hitting the 'send' button on our computers, or with iPads, or phones.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Budge", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump.", "AUTHOR": "Tre Cool", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Long", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kilby", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "With our work at Kazaa, we began seeing growing broadband connections and more powerful computers and more streaming multimedia, and we saw that the traditional way of communicating by phone no longer made a lot of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Abbey", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.", "AUTHOR": "David Arquette", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.", "AUTHOR": "Vinton Cerf", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Coleman", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.", "AUTHOR": "John Shadegg", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Hazanavicius", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck D.", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!", "AUTHOR": "Don Bluth", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bill James", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.", "AUTHOR": "Jhumpa Lahiri", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.", "AUTHOR": "Berkeley Breathed", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Greenwood", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.", "AUTHOR": "L'Wren Scott", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Osborne", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Issa", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.", "AUTHOR": "Roberta Williams", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.", "AUTHOR": "James Iha", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Vance", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like everything that we see perceived in the brain before we actually use our own eyes, that everything we see is coming through computers or machines and then is being input in our brain cells. So that really worries me.", "AUTHOR": "Hayao Miyazaki", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Harry", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Gallacher", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Something else has happened with computers.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Postel", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ford", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Sakic", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.", "AUTHOR": "Mstislav Rostropovich", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.", "AUTHOR": "Magnus Carlsen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.", "AUTHOR": "Magnus Carlsen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kilby", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Nagel", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Laughlin", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Kitsch", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Root", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Allin Cornell", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Davidson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Holloway", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bruni", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Kosinski", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nelson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nelson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Ellen Mark", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Schneier", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dolby", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Romer", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Wagner", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Mordechai Vanunu", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Rylance", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Egan", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Vorilhon", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.", "AUTHOR": "Soulja Boy", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.", "AUTHOR": "Charles C. Mann", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles C. Mann", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Keating", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Wyly", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Austin", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Austin", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.", "AUTHOR": "William Landay", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Carter", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Laswell", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.", "AUTHOR": "Lennart Nilsson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.", "AUTHOR": "Lennart Nilsson", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.", "AUTHOR": "Perry Farrell", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Fountain", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Black", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Avery", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Ann Davis", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.", "AUTHOR": "George Nethercutt", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dooling", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Petersen", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Kapor", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Wolfram", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Winer", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Press", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Levy", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Glaser", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Boucher", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Aiken", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.", "AUTHOR": "David Smith", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.", "AUTHOR": "Yael Naim", "GENRE": "computers" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather be dead than cool.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "He who keeps his cool best wins.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing is that now that people have made this evolution where cooking is cool, people are doing it on weekends, they're doing their own challenges. It's back to cooking. And it's real cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.", "AUTHOR": "Selena Gomez", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind not being cool.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pattinson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You get a timeless cool card in New York.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you create your own hipness.", "AUTHOR": "Peabo Bryson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been cool - and I don't care.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Baumgartner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kruger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Benatar", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Sui", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Spitz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Good words cool more than cold water.", "AUTHOR": "John Ray", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Burke", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Biggs", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Edmondson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.", "AUTHOR": "Craig McCracken", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!", "AUTHOR": "Ashton Kutcher", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.", "AUTHOR": "Usher", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Olsen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Hall", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.", "AUTHOR": "Anthea Turner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kurtis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.", "AUTHOR": "George Fox", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.", "AUTHOR": "Deng Xiaoping", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Americans are very cool people.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jarmusch", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep cool anger is not an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Molko", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't go to the cool, trendy restaurants. I go to either the holes in the wall or the super-fancy restaurants where there are no cool people.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool now to play golf.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep cool my babies.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Branch", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Way", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "At first I was queasy I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Smith", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to go places where working people are happy.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Brooke", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm he's cool he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Conforming is not cool.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not cool to be an alcoholic.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Bennington", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners are love in a cool climate.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do a trick and it doesn't work out, that can stick with you. I like to go back, nail the trick, and, 'OK, I'm cool, it's all good.'", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Prevert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Kagan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Cynicism is kind of like folding your arms and stepping back and commenting on things, like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Brower", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to be healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm obsessed with the 1920s, everything from the style to the lifestyle. It was a really cool era.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Elves are cool, man.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Danger is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Bennington", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It's all about the accessories.", "AUTHOR": "Alessandra Ambrosio", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Benjamin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.", "AUTHOR": "Rihanna", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.", "AUTHOR": "Selena Gomez", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gehrig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm. I would just like to be more like Troy, because he's so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are pretty cool people.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The term 'geek' for me is like you having a passion, interest in something that is unabashed and you don't care if people think it's not cool. You think it's cool and that's your thing.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a cool mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.'", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All of a sudden, Hulk Hogan has become retro. Hulk Hogan has become cool again. So to come out and to hear how loud the fans are. To hear how loyal the fans are, it's truly overwhelming. I just can't believe I've been reborn in the WWE.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Ramone", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been a lot of really cool stuff that's happened to me throughout my career, and I remember everything, but I don't think I savored every moment of it like I should have or like I do now.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had, what, a 10-year run?", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things,' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Styles", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah, I'm fine, I'm on top of this' - but I was completely lost.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.", "AUTHOR": "Drake", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Ferneyhough", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Edie Sedgwick had a cool style she pushed the envelope for the time.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We aren't cool and never will be.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Coxon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz took too much discipline. You have to come in at the right place, which is different than me singing the blues, where I can sing, 'Oh, baby,' if there's a pause in the melody. With jazz, you better leave that space open, or put in something real cool.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Haas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Moore", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.", "AUTHOR": "Todd English", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to go to a place that has posters up and it's one night only. It feels more special.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really cool, but Jimmy Eat World and Gin Blossoms did it better than anyone. People don't realize just how awesome the Arizona history is, especially for alternative music. Growing up, that's all I ever wanted to be was those two bands.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful, but more importantly, make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney, and more recently, Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool, yet timeless, and the fits are effortlessly flattering.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Reznor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.", "AUTHOR": "Famke Janssen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Corddry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Sixx", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Crist", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard De Nerval", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I represent the kids who come from nothing but who understand it all and love it all. That's what I represent - those are the cool kids, you know, the kids of tomorrow, because who would've known that I'd be who I am today? We are the kids of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Baker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.", "AUTHOR": "James Hetfield", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Caan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it's a little harder in New York. It's not as forgiving to a film crew. You hold up a bunch of New Yorkers who can't cross the street, they're not going to take it well. Southern California? They'll wait. It's cool man. In New York, they're like, 'Are you kidding me? I gotta get to work.'", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Farrell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister has three kids so I've spent a lot of time around children and I've always really liked them and wanted my own. It's cool because you think all babies are the same but they aren't at all. They all have such different personalities. It's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Bode Miller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Coxon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Ray Vaughan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Seger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.", "AUTHOR": "Wilt Chamberlain", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.", "AUTHOR": "Busta Rhymes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never dream of being cool.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Corr", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was probably cool around the end of 2002.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Freeman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwayne Johnson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.", "AUTHOR": "Wiz Khalifa", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Wiz Khalifa", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.", "AUTHOR": "Adela Florence Nicolson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mewes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to be recognised by your peers.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Daughtry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Farmer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My strangest media moment a photo session they all had dressed up like 50 gangsters. That was pretty cool. We have to get some more of those kind of photos sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry King", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.", "AUTHOR": "Juice Newton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.", "AUTHOR": "Darren Criss", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Moffat", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Belly buttons are cool!", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Kay", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "With 'The Host,' I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. I'd love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.", "AUTHOR": "Stephenie Meyer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.", "AUTHOR": "David Coverdale", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "He's as cool as a prized marrow!", "AUTHOR": "Sid Waddell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Kim", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in love is not cool!", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Brown Findlay", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Brown Findlay", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Isla Fisher", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Ludacris", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.", "AUTHOR": "William H. Macy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Raitt", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes guys are so concerned with being cool and hanging out with their friends. They don't want to seem like the guy that 'has to call his girlfriend.' It's just boys growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Cavallari", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Garber", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Zayn Malik", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Giamatti", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Baranski", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Casablancas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft - not embarrassing, very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Aubrey Plaza", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "So you got the cool New Yorkers, and then there are the less-than-cool New Yorkers.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John Kricfalusi", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lachey", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There's kind of a cool feel that happens every now and then. I guess that feel is the thing that makes the score its own score. But, I don't know exactly what that is. So, it's hard for me to answer that question.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Elfman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a really dope studio where I can record music or film things. Just have my own mini production house. That's really the thing I'd love to end up with the most and only do gigs when I needed to and also amass a little bit of a crew around me.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I'll go through the whole screening process and at the end they'll go, 'Hey, man, I really like your work.' That's so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.", "AUTHOR": "Aisha Tyler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Sizemore", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Alba", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to do cool stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Corddry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Somers", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Hirsch", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.", "AUTHOR": "Jordana Brewster", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evert", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, everything is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Paz Vega", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just a cool type of guy who's all about positives.", "AUTHOR": "Big Boi", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Jackson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Bynes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Bynes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Smith", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Benson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool!", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carl Black", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.", "AUTHOR": "Blair Underwood", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things.", "AUTHOR": "Macaulay Culkin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.", "AUTHOR": "Darren Aronofsky", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Fischer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Coleman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Coleman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.", "AUTHOR": "Dar Williams", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Atkins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Klosterman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Black", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They're a different generation, those kids kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Black", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Kimmel", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.", "AUTHOR": "James Purefoy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Van Ronk", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Mackie", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Mackie", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Connelly", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.", "AUTHOR": "Meg White", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.", "AUTHOR": "Meg White", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Country's hip it's cool music.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Skaggs", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Morgan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.", "AUTHOR": "Todd McFarlane", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Todd McFarlane", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jenner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you're winning, your uniforms are cool.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Alexander", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bernhard", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Lee DeWyze", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Szohr", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Halpern", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Lee", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Melanie Fiona is a singer, a songwriter, she's a super-girl. I can be silly, goofy, really chilled. She's like your cool chill girlfriend, sister-friend. I'm just like everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hensley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Shannyn Sossamon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Heimel", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.", "AUTHOR": "John Fogerty", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Elfman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Jim McKay", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.", "AUTHOR": "Max Cannon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Konitz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.", "AUTHOR": "Oren Peli", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Auerbach", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Thomas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Panettiere", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Beauprez", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Short", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And I remember as a second or third grader having some autonomy to go to the store if I felt like it, walk home, take my time, kick the can. We were on our own schedule after school, so that was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Garcia", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Jennings", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie Dunn", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Vaughn", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They had some really cool rigged cars and things that were different that they would tow behind the camera car that were actually on these trailers that manipulated side to side and stuff like they were getting hit, and actually put the actor right in the middle of the chase.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Wilson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Homme", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Norman Reedus", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't not look cool with a crossbow.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Reedus", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nicholas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bay", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Lowry", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.", "AUTHOR": "Kimbra", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Only", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Livingston", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.", "AUTHOR": "Missy Elliot", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I jumped off a cliff backwards for 'I Am Number Four,' which was pretty cool. I'd never done that before. It took seven takes from different angles and luckily there were no injuries. I came close, though. My head nearly hit the rock at one point.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Pettyfer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Taylor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jhonen Vasquez", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shum, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shum, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and the water opening up for you.", "AUTHOR": "Dawn Fraser", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sunday school don't make you cool forever.", "AUTHOR": "Sly Stone", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication.", "AUTHOR": "Donal Logue", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Goldberg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Goldberg", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Williams", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie Spector", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Liu", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Tedder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan White", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was cool to do someone else's movie. It was a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mewes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.", "AUTHOR": "Will Wright", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Will Wright", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!'", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Athletes are very cool to me.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "This wired generation is kind of cool.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.", "AUTHOR": "William Petersen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Wyclef Jean", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gyllenhaal", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?", "AUTHOR": "John Goodman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Crowe", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Vai", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Gordon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.", "AUTHOR": "Shane West", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester.", "AUTHOR": "Shane West", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Chalke", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being out front, doing what I do, but then I also like playing in a band too. I'd like to do stuff like I did with Deee-lite. I went out and played with them and they were the stars, that was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Bootsy Collins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Coolidge", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Padilha", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually just recently I came up with that idea, watching the movie 'Legally Blonde' and I was like, 'Cool, that's something I want to do.'", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Lizzy Caplan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.", "AUTHOR": "Jena Malone", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Mondale", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Mondale", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Elton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?", "AUTHOR": "Emir Kusturica", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Malkmus", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Lee", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Lee", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.", "AUTHOR": "Cee Lo Green", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Adams", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Shemar Moore", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Romano", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Buble", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Tunney", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Edmondson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Wiseman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bogosian", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Brandis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Patrick Harris", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Bledsoe", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.", "AUTHOR": "Tila Tequila", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone in Hollywood wanted a role in this movie. Everyone wanted to have a part in it. I feel so lucky that I got one, but what I find so cool about 'Hunger Games' is that the real star is the story itself.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Ludwig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Ludwig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Hunter", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Krohn", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.", "AUTHOR": "Ike Turner", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'", "AUTHOR": "Jake Johnson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Johnson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Bennett", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Prepon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.", "AUTHOR": "Mike McCready", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Ribisi", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Williams", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.", "AUTHOR": "Darius Rucker", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Glover", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.", "AUTHOR": "David Baldacci", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Masterson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Kiernan Shipka", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanna Arquette", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Davis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Otto", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hall", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Morris", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Morris", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Buck", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Hodgson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Hodgson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Baynham", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Zito", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Zito", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study.", "AUTHOR": "Esperanza Spalding", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.", "AUTHOR": "Walton Goggins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Cole", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Helms", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Helms", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.", "AUTHOR": "Zayn Malik", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that was a moment of cool panic there.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Atkinson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Haas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought vampires were interesting because they live forever, they're always well-financed, they dress well, you know what I mean? And they're, like, cool. Usually vampire - you've never seen a broke vampire. Have you?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ealy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cannon", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Chbosky", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Farrelly", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Sisto", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Teller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.", "AUTHOR": "Romario", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Irvin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ian", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Dobrev", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hybels", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Simpson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Simpson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ek", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Heder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Heder", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I was just so, I don't know, overpowered by his presence. Like he's a very mystic person. He's older so I never really warmed up around him. I was so stiff.", "AUTHOR": "Franka Potente", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Johnson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.", "AUTHOR": "Stacie Orrico", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Keener", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'", "AUTHOR": "Willow Shields", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "For 'The Haunting Hour,' I thought it would be a lot of fun. It was great to play this cool kid role. My episode is called 'The Intruders' and my character is this mean, angry teenager because her younger brother was just born and he gets all of the attention. She's always playing tricks on her family, and there are some cool twists.", "AUTHOR": "Willow Shields", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.", "AUTHOR": "Atticus Shaffer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Gardell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.", "AUTHOR": "Jolene Blalock", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal.", "AUTHOR": "James Durbin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like America. I think it's pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lynn Rajskub", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.", "AUTHOR": "Kel Mitchell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.", "AUTHOR": "John Singleton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to dress cool, and get all the ladies.", "AUTHOR": "John Singleton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.", "AUTHOR": "John Singleton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'", "AUTHOR": "Candy Crowley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Brust", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Kosteniuk", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.", "AUTHOR": "Chrisette Michele", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Lively", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!", "AUTHOR": "Dylan O'Brien", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Hanson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Lombardo", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.", "AUTHOR": "Billy West", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Henstridge", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Allen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.", "AUTHOR": "J. Cole", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.", "AUTHOR": "Balthazar Getty", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'", "AUTHOR": "Genie Francis", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well she's so professional and hardworking.", "AUTHOR": "Kaya Scodelario", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Harkness", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ament", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hopkins", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Myracle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Myracle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Garcia", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Alexander", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.", "AUTHOR": "Evanna Lynch", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Consuelos", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kiwanuka", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.", "AUTHOR": "Alanna Ubach", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Vick", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.", "AUTHOR": "Nelly", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm confident - confident in my skin, and I'm cool with my flaws and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Minka Kelly", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.", "AUTHOR": "Spider Robinson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.", "AUTHOR": "Soulja Boy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Christensen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Cassidy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.", "AUTHOR": "Naima Adedapo", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew McGrory", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Criss", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.", "AUTHOR": "Sondre Lerche", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.", "AUTHOR": "Sondre Lerche", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Hayes", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Shalhoub", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Cernan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Evans", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.", "AUTHOR": "Les Claypool", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.", "AUTHOR": "Gotye", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.", "AUTHOR": "Kingman Brewster, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.", "AUTHOR": "Rhona Mitra", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all. Looking back on my career in television and making a movie like 'The Sound of Music' from an adult point of view, it actually seems kind of unreal. I was involved in shows that people grew up with - that hold memories for them - and it's a cool feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Cartwright", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love crispy, cool sheets.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Murphy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman A. Hrabowski III", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.", "AUTHOR": "Al Stewart", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Wormald", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie like 'Footloose' where a guy is dancing masculine and had a proper reason behind it. It made me feel cool, and when these kids would make fun of me, I'd be like, 'Oh, didn't you see 'Footloose,' man?'", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Wormald", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it can be fun to be single and date-like when you don't want a relationship. Or when you've just gotten out of a relationship, and, after get over the initial shock, your thinking, Hey, it's kind of cool being single.", "AUTHOR": "Breckin Meyer", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.", "AUTHOR": "Kaley Cuoco", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Doyle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Doyle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldn't find a way to make it really fun. We've got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Meier", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'", "AUTHOR": "Evan Glodell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Krupp", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Atlanta is an incredibly cool city.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Lincoln", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the way my character, Shane, was first introduced. You get introduced to her through this sexual action, and I thought that was so cool and just kind of summed up what she enjoys and who she is, to a certain extent. She's a complete sexual being and the great thing is that she doesn't apologize for it. It's just who she is. We rarely see women be able to do that on television.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Moennig", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.", "AUTHOR": "Theo James", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup.", "AUTHOR": "Theo James", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got two brothers and two sisters, so there's five of us and we're all very close, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Theo James", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I like starting. It's pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Al Leiter", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of 'Lost in Love' and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!", "AUTHOR": "Graham Russell", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Welch", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Kartheiser", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald McRaney", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.", "AUTHOR": "Creed Bratton", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Robinson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Teyana Taylor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!", "AUTHOR": "Keegan Allen", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.", "AUTHOR": "Buzz Osborne", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Werkheiser", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Odenkirk", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Bond", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it.", "AUTHOR": "Corbin Bleu", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Corbin Bleu", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip Phillips", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Lefkofsky", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.", "AUTHOR": "Sean William Scott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Sean William Scott", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.", "AUTHOR": "Ciara", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Segall", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Wright", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.", "AUTHOR": "David Krumholtz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Gallagher", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Smith", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Daniels", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Fanning", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Southerners are pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Schneider", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind what the role is at all I just want to play cool characters.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Cudmore", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Thomas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.", "AUTHOR": "Heather O'Reilly", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.", "AUTHOR": "Joey McIntyre", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Conrad", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Two weeks later, we played our first concert and had 100 people there. It was pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Will Champion", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.", "AUTHOR": "Narada Michael Walden", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Hugo", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rice", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Roberts", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Roberts", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting a lot of stick because my character in 'Young Dracula' wanted to be vampire, so now that I am a vampire, everyone's like, 'You finally did it!' But it's cool and I loved doing 'Young Dracula.' That show's finished and I don't know why it ended, so it was brilliant to go into 'Being Human,' which is like the adult version of it.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Roberts", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Roberts", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Olstead", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Olstead", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Puryear", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had cameos on some cool shows.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wesley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wesley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa de la Cruz", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninjas are so cool!", "AUTHOR": "Adrianne Palicki", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Hoffman", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jon McGregor", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Cannavale", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Byrd", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!", "AUTHOR": "Grey DeLisle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do!", "AUTHOR": "Grey DeLisle", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth R. Miller", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.", "AUTHOR": "Ted McGinley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Patsavas", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Kardashian", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Briggs", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Phinney", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm playing with Bonnie Raitt. I don't have to sing it. I just have to play it. That's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Preston", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Glaser", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "William Kempe", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "L.A.'s cool I had a run with it to where it just pretty much wore me out. I love the weather and I have great friends there, great family, but I really cannot take a lot of the culture. Like Nashville, where everybody's a songwriter, everybody out there is an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Shooter Jennings", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew McConaughey", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Wareheim", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Rae", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Daniel", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.", "AUTHOR": "Burl Ives", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.", "AUTHOR": "Jazmine Sullivan", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.", "AUTHOR": "Owen Wilson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "But Freedom Strike was actually quite cool.", "AUTHOR": "Tone Loc", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.", "AUTHOR": "William Henry Hudson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Perrineau", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?", "AUTHOR": "Zac Hanson", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!", "AUTHOR": "Lizzie Brochere", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.", "AUTHOR": "Rae Dawn Chong", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Tania Raymonde", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Arnold", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Prinze, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Prinze, Jr.", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.", "AUTHOR": "John Dobbin", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sturgess", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought that 'Twilight' would be a kind of girl movie, but it was cool.", "AUTHOR": "Kodi Smit-McPhee", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!", "AUTHOR": "Rutina Wesley", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.", "AUTHOR": "Austin Butler", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had a cool older brother or sister to turn me on to cool music. I had to discover it for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kanal", "GENRE": "cool" }, { "QUOTE": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is grace under pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One man with courage is a majority.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "From caring comes courage.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a kind of salvation.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It requires more courage to suffer than to die.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is found in unlikely places.", "AUTHOR": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.", "AUTHOR": "E. F. Schumacher", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hightower", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One man with courage makes a majority.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Harper Lee", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The best protection any woman can have... is courage.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of courage is also full of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is knowing what not to fear.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Chester W. Nimitz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is to be entered upon with courage.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The weak in courage is strong in cunning.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Mantle", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Casals", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.", "AUTHOR": "William Alexander", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage without conscience is a wild beast.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Dee", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is talent set on fire by courage.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Despair gives courage to a coward.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Political courage is not political suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine the Great", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The more wit the less courage.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Tyler Moore", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Kaufman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity takes courage.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage to act instead of react.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have courage to be obedient to God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage, my friends 'tis not too late to build a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Douglas", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Rickenbacker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Luckman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the courage of my convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.", "AUTHOR": "Owen D. Young", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.", "AUTHOR": "John Keegan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph W. Sockman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Clark", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one requirement of any of us, and that is to be courageous. Because courage, as you might know, defines all other human behavior. And, I believe - because I've done a little of this myself - pretending to be courageous is just as good as the real thing.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage in danger is half the battle.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage easily finds its own eloquence.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.", "AUTHOR": "David Ben-Gurion", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man of courage is a man of his word.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Norton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Rommel", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Paley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Johnson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Neal A. Maxwell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.", "AUTHOR": "August Strindberg", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.", "AUTHOR": "William J. H. Boetcker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "David Viscott", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is always rewarded.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Friedrich Gauss", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Sheehan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kinsley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Olasky", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.", "AUTHOR": "Della Reese", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Rohm", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.", "AUTHOR": "Jalal Talabani", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Hill", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas M. Butler", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crumb", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.", "AUTHOR": "Sarojini Naidu", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't test courage cautiously.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Being gifted needs courage.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriele D'Annunzio", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.", "AUTHOR": "Muammar al-Gaddafi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ellsberg", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Dalton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.", "AUTHOR": "John Petit-Senn", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Brando", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Hutchence", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?", "AUTHOR": "Marie Antoinette", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Rodman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.", "AUTHOR": "William Blackstone", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Branagh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.", "AUTHOR": "Vittorio Alfieri", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.", "AUTHOR": "Wallis Simpson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical courage is a great test.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Richards", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.", "AUTHOR": "George Konrad", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "War is fear cloaked in courage.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Ruiz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.", "AUTHOR": "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Akhmatova", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Koestler", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Bancroft", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Hirsch", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Daly", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Pulitzer", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.", "AUTHOR": "David Ben-Gurion", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Dale Owen", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Richard L. Evans", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.", "AUTHOR": "Branch Rickey", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Autry", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Randall", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Hicks", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Carreras", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of courage is simple consistency.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Noonan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Reid", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.", "AUTHOR": "Townsend Harris", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.", "AUTHOR": "George Weinberg", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Falcon Scott", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kerry", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Shipley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less oil than at any time in modern history, and it has been because of the president's vision and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Salazar", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.", "AUTHOR": "Torquato Tasso", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Haley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Buchner", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.", "AUTHOR": "James Callaghan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hybels", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldo Rivera", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.", "AUTHOR": "Linda McCartney", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Ellerbee", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.", "AUTHOR": "John Bunyan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage of your desire.", "AUTHOR": "George Gissing", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Light", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Sorvino", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clooney", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Gordon", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.", "AUTHOR": "Delmore Schwartz", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Joan Collins. She's a wonderful lady. She has such courage. She's such a good actress.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wagner", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Scarborough", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Laliberte", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fonda", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Banneker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Pollock", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post,' I remained an admirer.", "AUTHOR": "Kitty Kelley", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Maritain", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.", "AUTHOR": "John Carpenter", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Bell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Harding Davis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Keating", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.", "AUTHOR": "John Milius", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Patterson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Wamp", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Dale Owen", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.", "AUTHOR": "James T. Walsh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Bart Starr", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Perkins", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ferguson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is the foundation of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas M. Butler", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia McKinney", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Antony Sher", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Murphy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.", "AUTHOR": "Mercy Otis Warren", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, you must have the courage of being free.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Carreras", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Leifer", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.", "AUTHOR": "James Keller", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.", "AUTHOR": "Kong Fu Zi", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.", "AUTHOR": "Boutros Boutros-Ghali", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Miller", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Dennett", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome Cady", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Koons", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Monckton", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Servetus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is action, not talk.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Rich", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.", "AUTHOR": "Prescott Bush", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.", "AUTHOR": "Don Young", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.", "AUTHOR": "Archilochus", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Gordon", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schaffer", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.", "AUTHOR": "Emeli Sande", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.", "AUTHOR": "John Slattery", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jaclyn Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Carey", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Yan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Paul Rubens", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Cassin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Cassin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.", "AUTHOR": "Willy Brandt", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Sandoval", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is always the surest wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfred Grenfell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Anne Porter", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Peel", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bremer", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a system based on courage.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Peguy", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.", "AUTHOR": "John Burns", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel E. Morison", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I would kiss you, had I the courage.", "AUTHOR": "Edouard Manet", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.", "AUTHOR": "Josefina Vazquez Mota", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.", "AUTHOR": "Giraldus Cambrensis", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ament", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.", "AUTHOR": "Mark McGrath", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Stannard Baker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.", "AUTHOR": "Xi Jinping", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Baldwin", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.", "AUTHOR": "Vittorio Alfieri", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Blanka Vlasic", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Albert", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.", "AUTHOR": "William L. Jenkins", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.", "AUTHOR": "Van Wyck Brooks", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Capra", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.", "AUTHOR": "George Crabbe", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Berkman", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia M. Child", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.", "AUTHOR": "Josephus Daniels", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Collier", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Slater", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Pryor", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Rossner", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.", "AUTHOR": "Silvia Cartwright", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Daly", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Doucet", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hatch", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Baker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Fuller", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.", "AUTHOR": "John Murray", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bohn", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.", "AUTHOR": "William Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lord", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.", "AUTHOR": "Donald O'Connor", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred P. Sloan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Flake", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Baird", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Smith", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Marsan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Blum", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Necessity does the work of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas M. Butler", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Cook", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Chamberlain", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wilson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Jameson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.", "AUTHOR": "Romeo LeBlanc", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Lopez", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Gazzara", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Keenan", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't follow titles, they follow courage.", "AUTHOR": "William Wells Brown", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.", "AUTHOR": "William Slim", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney M. Young", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.", "AUTHOR": "James Robinson", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.", "AUTHOR": "Prescott Bush", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaus I", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.", "AUTHOR": "Coventry Patmore", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hunter", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Vinet", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Campbell", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.", "AUTHOR": "Dame Edith Evans", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.", "AUTHOR": "William Boetcker", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.", "AUTHOR": "Megawati Sukarnoputri", "GENRE": "courage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has not had a good father, one must create one.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I just wish I could understand my father.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Heckerling", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Bagnold", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is much easier to become a father than to be one.", "AUTHOR": "Kent Nerburn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The child is father of the man.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Reagan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "An angry father is most cruel towards himself.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rose", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Butler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?", "AUTHOR": "Dick Clark", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bergin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.", "AUTHOR": "Dawn French", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But the love of adventure was in father's blood.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Indurain", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important influence in my childhood was my father.", "AUTHOR": "DeForest Kelley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Romano", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!", "AUTHOR": "Terence", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Charles", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Wayans", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.", "AUTHOR": "August Strindberg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Keeler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Penn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Reagan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was never anti-anything in our house.", "AUTHOR": "Errol Flynn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father loved people, children and pets.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Pride", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father taught me how to substitute realities.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Sorvino", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.", "AUTHOR": "John Lithgow", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Quinn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Tatum O'Neal", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Borge", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cannon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Davis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Broderick Crawford", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'", "AUTHOR": "Dinah Shore", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lee", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Brock", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Bosley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'", "AUTHOR": "Daisy Donovan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Kaufman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bly", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Turnbull", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'", "AUTHOR": "Harmon Killebrew", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'", "AUTHOR": "Josh Charles", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.", "AUTHOR": "Wade Boggs", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.", "AUTHOR": "Al Unser", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Finch", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad took me to my first movie.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a dad. I just love it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was good with actions.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad died of a stroke.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Ace Frehley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Crane", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad played fiddle as well.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you're fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn't like you that much.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an ongoing joy being a dad.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Sixx", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad.'", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just a pretty regular dad.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Orr", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad is my hero.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm turning into a stricter dad.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, he's the rocker.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a Methodist minister.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Bach", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Viduka", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll back up anything my dad says.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Browne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always on the court with my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was the quintessential husband and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Fieri", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my dad has helped me tremendously.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61 Rod Stewart was 66 Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a marketing mastermind.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My role model is my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I'd be singing and know all of the words but I didn't even know how to talk. From then on I've always wanted to be a singer.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Gerrard", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hartnett", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Eccleston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Wilson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Rush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.", "AUTHOR": "Thierry Henry", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cumming", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I'm a dad, I'm practicing what I call 'one- handed cooking,' because I've got something more important in my other arm. I'm whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.", "AUTHOR": "James Caan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.", "AUTHOR": "Drake", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mom and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Bruno", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't really decided to be an actor yet! I started doing plays when I was about 15 or 16. I only did it because my dad saw a bunch of pretty girls in a restaurant and he asked them where they came from and they said drama group. He said, 'Son, that is where you need to go.'", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pattinson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pattinson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with baseball I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.", "AUTHOR": "Anne M. Mulcahy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Singletary", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Lochte", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.", "AUTHOR": "Dimebag Darrell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Reagan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never said, 'dad, I love you.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Reagan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.", "AUTHOR": "Kylie Minogue", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people who loved cars and took care of cars and my dad's a big car nut, so I learned a little bit about cars - how to love them, most importantly. I think that from the time I could remember, I've always envisioned myself in a vintage muscle car.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Vardalos", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn't have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.", "AUTHOR": "Thierry Henry", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Rall", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Bubba Watson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.", "AUTHOR": "Juliana Hatfield", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Brown", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to make a point of basing myself at home, being close to my family. I'll never be able to repay Mum and Dad for what they did, but at least they know they'll never have to work another day. I'll do whatever it takes to look after them.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the fun dad, I am also the disciplinarian.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Agassi", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Bruno", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Frazier", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Hoult", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.'", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltrane", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.", "AUTHOR": "Benicio Del Toro", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Morrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Isaak", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Isaak", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.", "AUTHOR": "Wiz Khalifa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.", "AUTHOR": "O. J. Simpson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Sabol", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents they did what parents are supposed to do.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Yothers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Bateman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Offerman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Church", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Atom Egoyan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Daley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.", "AUTHOR": "Skeet Ulrich", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.", "AUTHOR": "Skeet Ulrich", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Eccleston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Hahn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Lee", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.", "AUTHOR": "Benedict Cumberbatch", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has always been my coach. And I've spent so much time with him. So he's one of my best friends. And I can talk to him about everything.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Jenna's traveled with me they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Reagan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Reagan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.", "AUTHOR": "Ornette Coleman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't always want to be a dad.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Gallagher", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.", "AUTHOR": "David Oyelowo", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Eubanks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Eubanks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'", "AUTHOR": "Peyton Manning", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Ushkowitz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Liotta", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Osbourne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Osbourne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all the overtime God gave him to buy me new ballet shoes, or a new tutu.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Weiner", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad was a very gentle, sweet man.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Scott", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lawrence", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Giamatti", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Redknapp", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Redknapp", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Redknapp", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Redknapp", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Hawkins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!", "AUTHOR": "Sally Hawkins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem how do you approach the problem?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Keller", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Evans", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Wright", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Austin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really plan to be a pop star I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.", "AUTHOR": "Owen Hart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.", "AUTHOR": "Owen Hart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Cavuto", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.", "AUTHOR": "Branford Marsalis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be a dad.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shannon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Your kids can say some cruel things to you at times. For example, Nicole, Miles and Sofie are standing there in the room and I'm dressed to kill in my own mind. They'll say to me, 'Dad, you're not going out there looking like that are you?' If that doesn't kill a star, I don't know what does!", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Rhys Meyers", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.", "AUTHOR": "Dusty Baker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Hall", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Finney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Ritter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Ritter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'", "AUTHOR": "Jason Ritter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.", "AUTHOR": "Yancy Butler", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dad and that's pretty important.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Akin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Ian McShane", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.", "AUTHOR": "Bubba Watson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm being a dad and a good husband.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Smith", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm worried because of my mother, she's going to see my performance and she's quite hard. She's going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they're going to see me like a woman, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Westerberg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.", "AUTHOR": "George Best", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I've become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Duhamel", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Marx", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.", "AUTHOR": "Iggy Pop", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltraine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Rockwell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Coppola", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Pare", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Robinson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Robinson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sherwood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Brownback", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanne Cash", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanne Cash", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Strachan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.", "AUTHOR": "Meg White", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Skaggs", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Morgan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.", "AUTHOR": "Bam Margera", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.", "AUTHOR": "Wally Schirra", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Wheldon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.", "AUTHOR": "Teresa Palmer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Lovitz", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Maples", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.", "AUTHOR": "James Ellroy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up loving Walter Payton. My dad used to always show us film of him.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Alexander", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Alexander", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Romeo", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Joseph", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad!", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad still calls me and makes sure I'm taking my vitamins.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm gonna be the best dad that ever lived. I'll have a ranch with a race car track and a golf course.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jeter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Bonaduce", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Reiser", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Reiser", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Reiser", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Walsh", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Glazer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Max Cannon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Tonioli", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Tonioli", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Harrison", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Auerbach", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Auerbach", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia Jagger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's not a very intimidating father figure.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia Jagger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia Jagger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia Jagger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'", "AUTHOR": "Georgia Jagger", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.", "AUTHOR": "David Cone", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.", "AUTHOR": "Brion James", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Brolin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Russell", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.", "AUTHOR": "John Denver", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.", "AUTHOR": "David Rudisha", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie Dunn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lando", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a dad you know.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Hammond", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.", "AUTHOR": "Wilt Chamberlain", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fehr", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manganiello", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Cornish", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Sheffield", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.", "AUTHOR": "John Astin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Spillane", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Pettyfer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Graham", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.", "AUTHOR": "Ben E. King", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.", "AUTHOR": "George Eads", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Austin Green", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.", "AUTHOR": "Dustin Diamond", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Ora", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Fogelberg", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Northam", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.", "AUTHOR": "Lara St. John", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a tough question I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Lennon", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Huppert", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Weir", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well my dad was a pretty good player at one stage and my two older brothers played golf as well. So there were always golf clubs flying around the house.", "AUTHOR": "Retief Goosen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Elizabeth", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didn't spend that much time with him. And I used to put headphones on and listen to my dad talk and sing and I found that quite... bonding with him, in a weird way.", "AUTHOR": "Teddy Thompson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.", "AUTHOR": "Karrie Webb", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.", "AUTHOR": "Tatum O'Neal", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Cross", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we wouldn't be drafted until we were 20.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.", "AUTHOR": "David Alan Grier", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'", "AUTHOR": "Rip Torn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.", "AUTHOR": "Zosia Mamet", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.", "AUTHOR": "Zosia Mamet", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.", "AUTHOR": "William Petersen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Duffy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Duffy", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Aravind Adiga", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Reid", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.", "AUTHOR": "Emily VanCamp", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Frey", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Norris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Norris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Norris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?", "AUTHOR": "David Hyde Pierce", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.", "AUTHOR": "David Hyde Pierce", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Mondale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Mondale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Owen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Owen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Sinatra", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Sinatra", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Balaban", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Balaban", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.", "AUTHOR": "Poppy Z. Brite", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Miliband", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Lee", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel West", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.", "AUTHOR": "Eric San", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Fantasia Barrino", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Hendricks", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Baldwin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Moyer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I'm still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jane", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Evangeline Lilly", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.", "AUTHOR": "Chely Wright", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Torme", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Krohn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Zahn", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Koons", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Cheney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Moog", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!", "AUTHOR": "Connie Britton", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.", "AUTHOR": "Marcy Kaptur", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'", "AUTHOR": "Allison Williams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Joel Osment", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Joel Osment", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.", "AUTHOR": "James Wood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.", "AUTHOR": "James Wood", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Wilde", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Harris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Castle", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.", "AUTHOR": "Rich Lowry", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Glover", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Enos", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Enos", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Walker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Lauren Adams", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.", "AUTHOR": "James Belushi", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'", "AUTHOR": "James Belushi", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Gann", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Nicollier", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.", "AUTHOR": "Shane MacGowan", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Love", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hale", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "John L. Phillips", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.", "AUTHOR": "Chaske Spencer", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Allen", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Morris", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.", "AUTHOR": "Dierks Bentley", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Parker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Parker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Parker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Gallagher", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Appleby", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Lucas", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Appleby", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Giggs", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "A mustache really defines your face. My dad had a mustache when I was growing up, and I can still remember when he shaved it, he looked like a completely different person.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Sudeikis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Bruce", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Cole", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Bruce", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pine", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Connors", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic West", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic West", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Shanteau", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Parrilla", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hislop", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Elliott", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.", "AUTHOR": "David Crystal", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Haas", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Aoki", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Parrish", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Stojko", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa George", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa George", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Dubus III", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Hull", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Dubus III", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chiklis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Sisto", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Cooney", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Pearson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Reinhart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.", "AUTHOR": "Dusty Baker", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Reinhart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Travis", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Hart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "All my band members were old enough to be my dad. It was like this family vibe.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Hayes", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Hart", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Benanti", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Sandoval", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.", "AUTHOR": "Jonny Lang", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.", "AUTHOR": "Hale Irwin", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmet Zappa", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Bakula", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.", "AUTHOR": "John Leguizamo", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Bibb", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Stacie Orrico", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Murray", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Posey", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Mason", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Lohman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.", "AUTHOR": "Domenico Dolce", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always told my dad I'd play professional football.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Doerr", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Alibar", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McCloud", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Alibar", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McCloud", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Pullman", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Davidson", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Hyland", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.", "AUTHOR": "Willow Shields", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia Ko", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.", "AUTHOR": "Dolph Lundgren", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 and I see this random group of girls staring at me and taking pictures. But now I usually have my dad, who is a really tall and intimidating person with me, so he's kind of my bodyguard.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Black", "GENRE": "dad" }, { "QUOTE": "Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Sweat", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Assumptions are the termites of relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Winkler", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Perry", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bishop", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Gottfried", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Liu", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cannon", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Shandling", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Dayne", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I was dating this guy and we would spend all day text messaging each other. And he thought that he could tell that he liked me more because he actually spelt the word 'YOU' and I just put the letter 'U'.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Shandling", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Silverstone", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Dodson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kournikova", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burns", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Faithfull", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Rumors about me? Calista Flockhart, Pam Anderson, and Matt Damon. That's who I'm dating.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Pratt", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Driver", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Cruz", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Velasquez", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kournikova", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.", "AUTHOR": "Spalding Gray", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gere", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "In a relationship you have to open yourself up.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Wilson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne Zuniga", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Love Hewitt", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Carrot Top", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne Zuniga", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.", "AUTHOR": "Usher", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Cassidy", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy of dating is to just fart right away.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Daisy Fuentes", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I give dating advice on a regular basis. It's not that I'm any expert, but it's always nice to share that with your friends.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the best dating track record.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating in Los Angeles can be hard, which makes it all the better when you meet a really nice guy.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, and the other was the same age, and neither worked out. I know people still think of me as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends, and he of course was much older than me, but that was a whole different lifestyle and a different kind of dating.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I have put gay dating on the map.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair color, all the way down to what she does for a living, what school she went to. Their list can be extremely long. But at the end of the day, dating is dating, because they're human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Gibb", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.", "AUTHOR": "Melinda Gates", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.", "AUTHOR": "Kato Kaelin", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.", "AUTHOR": "Lorna Luft", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Hall", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I was dating my first boyfriend in high school for a long time, and we broke up before prom. I hadn't met anyone else that I really wanted to go with, and my friends have always been amazing. So I went with my friends and got a million photos with them!", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.", "AUTHOR": "John Stamos", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.", "AUTHOR": "Flavor Flav", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many of you, I've always been slightly obsessed with vampires, dating back to the prime-time series 'Dark Shadows,' which I followed avidly as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Kattan", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm finally dating. It's fun.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very open to dating and finding a guy.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Cavallari", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have dating tips.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Keller", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no wisdom to share on dating.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Dratch", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Allred", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.", "AUTHOR": "Priscilla Presley", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad!", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Ann Inaba", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It's ironic, really. Guys should be excited that I got Kristen Bell. If Brad Pitt gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Lin", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.", "AUTHOR": "Zosia Mamet", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Albini", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind dating younger men now.", "AUTHOR": "Jackee Harry", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Lister-Jones", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98 but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Greenleaf", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Blount, Jr.", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Rosario Dawson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!", "AUTHOR": "Andie MacDowell", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Cuba Gooding, Jr.", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.", "AUTHOR": "Stockard Channing", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Robinson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Dubus III", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.", "AUTHOR": "Veronica Roth", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Padalecki", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I think everybody has the crises of questioning themselves at some point or other in their lives. Is this where I should live? The job I should have? The girl I should be dating? Is this the friend I should have?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Messina", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.", "AUTHOR": "JoJo", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rachelle Lefevre", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Samberg", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Tyson Gay", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pine", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pine", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "David Gallagher", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Delany", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm enjoying dating. I'm single, though, I'm not in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Czuchry", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.", "AUTHOR": "George Andrew Olah", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!", "AUTHOR": "Meg Cabot", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Savage", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Rickards", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Fonda", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Cummings", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.", "AUTHOR": "Tracee Ellis Ross", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.", "AUTHOR": "Torrie Wilson", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Krantz", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'", "AUTHOR": "Jules Asner", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.", "AUTHOR": "Davidson Black", "GENRE": "dating" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.", "AUTHOR": "David Gerrold", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.", "AUTHOR": "Quintus Ennius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.", "AUTHOR": "Stewart Alsop", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Man always dies before he is fully born.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Ertz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Call no man happy till he is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.", "AUTHOR": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Catherine Bateson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Hayden", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that gets born dies.", "AUTHOR": "Morrie Schwartz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea is to die young as late as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Thomas Ellis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Erik H. Erikson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Moritz Arndt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Hall", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Errol Flynn", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Man dies of cold, not of darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All architects want to live beyond their deaths.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He who doesn't fear death dies only once.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Falcone", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Akhmatova", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Caan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bolt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death's in the good-bye.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sexton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, habit is just a synonym for death.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clarke", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Hell, madam, is to love no longer.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the tyrant of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Cornwall", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.", "AUTHOR": "Arlo Guthrie", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Barenboim", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Fling but a stone, the giant dies.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Green", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a fearful thing.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The valiant never taste of death but once.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Biography lends to death a new terror.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't know life, how can we know death?", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.", "AUTHOR": "Che Guevara", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People living deeply have no fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the worst that can happen to men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A useless life is an early death.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me liberty or give me death.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "An unused life is an early death.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "After your death you will be what you were before your birth.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a distant rumor to the young.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the death of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of all life is death.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief is the death of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Grumbling is the death of love.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life is made by the death of others.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In every parting there is an image of death.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To some extent I liken slavery to death.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is but a moment, death also is but another.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is just life's next big adventure.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.", "AUTHOR": "Miyamoto Musashi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.", "AUTHOR": "Fulton J. Sheen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Russell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether for life or death, do your own work well.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Alinsky", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has no age, no limit and no death.", "AUTHOR": "John Galsworthy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Ray Vaughan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shankly", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.", "AUTHOR": "Angus Young", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.", "AUTHOR": "William Wycherley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Horne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is probably as painful as death.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Beatrice Hall", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Racine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In every death, a busy world comes to an end.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DaVinci", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Not even old age knows how to love death.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death comes from limited awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shankly", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "An evil life is a kind of death.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Waters", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Normality is death.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Birth was the death of him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Beckett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Araya", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Redgrave", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is an absolute marvel.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Spacey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is softer by far than tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Edna Ferber", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death was like love, a romantic escape.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.", "AUTHOR": "Giuseppe Garibaldi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life is promised except death.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.", "AUTHOR": "Seneca", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmed Yassin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Morrissey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Boleyn", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Inactivity is death.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody is entertained to death.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Nightingale", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in death will I relinquish my belts.", "AUTHOR": "Manny Pacquiao", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Ann Minner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Quaid", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.", "AUTHOR": "George Fox", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something about poverty that smells like death.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.", "AUTHOR": "Moses", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.", "AUTHOR": "William Lloyd Garrison", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kurtz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.", "AUTHOR": "Phoebe Cary", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm working myself to death.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Ladd", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a predicament which precedes death.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Travaglia", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Each instant of life is a step toward death.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73 good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mckellen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Morrissey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Science without conscience is the death of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.", "AUTHOR": "Don Van Vliet", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For tis not in mere death that men die most.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Abbott", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of death.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, all I thought about was death.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Cowell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Falcon Scott", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The sole equality on earth is death.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Nobel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.", "AUTHOR": "William Goldman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Mariah Carey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Hammett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death, the final, triumphant lover.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.", "AUTHOR": "Edna Ferber", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the final wake-up call.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Wallace", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure too is a form of death.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about death is that it's honest.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more afraid of marriage than death.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Buechner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Russel Wallace", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death ends a life, not a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Lemon", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.", "AUTHOR": "George Lincoln Rockwell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Patterson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kurzweil", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes McCambridge", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes McCambridge", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against the death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To awake from death is to die in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is feared as birth is forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested in getting myself to believe that it's going to happen to me. I'm interested in it, because if you're not, you're nuts. It's really de facto what we're here to find out about.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Accius", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Leonard", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.", "AUTHOR": "Isaiah Berlin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue alone has majesty in death.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Less base the fear of death than fear of life.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked Death right in the face.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We see death constantly on film.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "George Meredith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To be immortal is commonplace except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life and death have been lacking in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Black", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Snead", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Collins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Ray Vaughan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.", "AUTHOR": "Bernhard Langer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Hermes", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Johnson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Emigration is no longer a solution it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Turgenev", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Fleming", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing glamorous about death.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.", "AUTHOR": "G. Gordon Liddy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.", "AUTHOR": "George Sewell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!", "AUTHOR": "Heather Mills", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.", "AUTHOR": "Vance Havner", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don't know what tomorrow's going to bring.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had death threats from people with fixations.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.", "AUTHOR": "Sogyal Rinpoche", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.", "AUTHOR": "David Carradine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.", "AUTHOR": "Suge Knight", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gascoigne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Hammett", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death by starvation is slow.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Austin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.", "AUTHOR": "Veronica Franco", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Boone", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Boone", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You've gotta know what death is to know life!", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Parker", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Campbell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Coyle Bradley", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Hayworth", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?", "AUTHOR": "Robert McNamara", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Morris", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 words - but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called 'The Gods First Make Mad.' It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn't let that put me off.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Short", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Aoun", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.", "AUTHOR": "John Ralston Saul", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.", "AUTHOR": "John Elway", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Turgenev", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have fun, fine. It's not all life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Cochran", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Kaine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.", "AUTHOR": "Lorna Luft", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Benz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Sayle", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Sayle", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.", "AUTHOR": "Yasser Arafat", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I like death. I'm a big fan of it.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Ritchie", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Larson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Fry", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry King", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.", "AUTHOR": "Bilawal Bhutto Zardari", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.", "AUTHOR": "Francoise Sagan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.", "AUTHOR": "David Carradine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to hear about my death.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia McKinney", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Calment", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.", "AUTHOR": "G. Gordon Liddy", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Racine", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Ant", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.", "AUTHOR": "Antonin Scalia", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a very important part of life.", "AUTHOR": "GG Allin", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not it smelled like death, not youth.", "AUTHOR": "John Thorn", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.", "AUTHOR": "John Thorn", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.", "AUTHOR": "David Ortiz", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "death" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist in me cries out for design.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Rand", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't design clothes, I design dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Lauren", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Good design is good business.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Bertoia", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Johnson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.", "AUTHOR": "Terence", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck is the residue of design.", "AUTHOR": "Branch Rickey", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Bonnard", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Armani", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is not for philosophy it's for life.", "AUTHOR": "Issey Miyake", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Mizrahi", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.", "AUTHOR": "Charles J. Givens", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is everything. Everything!", "AUTHOR": "Paul Rand", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Versace", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary factor is proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I design for the woman who loves being a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Diane von Furstenberg", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Good design doesn't date.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Accessible design is good design.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The proper study of mankind is the science of design.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Kapor", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is people.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Jacobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Head", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Fender", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Davidson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Day", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is an unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Beene", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.", "AUTHOR": "Kenzo Tange", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.", "AUTHOR": "David McFadden", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Glaser", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.", "AUTHOR": "James Randolph Adams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Chermayeff", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Thomas", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Gygax", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wyeth", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Kalashnikov", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I help design my own tennis clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Interior design is a business of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Byrd", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I love design.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to design bridal dresses.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Campbell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't design down to a price.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The details are not the details. They make the design.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.", "AUTHOR": "Stella McCartney", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Alexander", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Alexander", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eames", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Giuliani", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.", "AUTHOR": "Orville Wright", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied literature design and fashion design.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.", "AUTHOR": "Clement Mok", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that so this was just a step for me in that direction.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gropius", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Karan", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am always locked in my design studio.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Garavani", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't give up my day job of design.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lacroix", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lacroix", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lacroix", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Ive", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Siriano", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James Garrett", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Carnahan", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Schiffer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kruger", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Coverdale", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.", "AUTHOR": "Don Bluth", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rauschenberg", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Reznor", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.", "AUTHOR": "L'Wren Scott", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.", "AUTHOR": "Colleen Atwood", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Alessandra Ambrosio", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.", "AUTHOR": "John Dyer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Keys Moran", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Bakshi", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Burdon", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula Andress", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.", "AUTHOR": "Ginny Brown-Waite", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn French", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.", "AUTHOR": "Tory Burch", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Dimon", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Ostrofsky", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Garavani", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Richardson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Westwick", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Fraser", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there's so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Roach", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Roach", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ende", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Oldfield", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.", "AUTHOR": "Sergio Aragones", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Jennings", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Staubach", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Galland", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.", "AUTHOR": "Janine Turner", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Allen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Ive", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Ive", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Tedder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Siriano", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Thomas", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.", "AUTHOR": "Betsey Johnson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Albini", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Jil Sander", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.", "AUTHOR": "Jil Sander", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.", "AUTHOR": "Jil Sander", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Graham", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Waldman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Fleischmann", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Loud", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Dennett", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keneally", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Muren", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Fanning", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Spinrad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Moog", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Moog", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Moog", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.", "AUTHOR": "Mike McCready", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.", "AUTHOR": "John Redwood", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.", "AUTHOR": "Norm Dicks", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I design some of my own clothes now.", "AUTHOR": "Kiernan Shipka", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Mayhew", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Endy", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Steele", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Kosinski", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Guidoni", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Barrow", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.", "AUTHOR": "Ivanka Trump", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.", "AUTHOR": "John Romero", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.", "AUTHOR": "John Romero", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.", "AUTHOR": "Dieter Rams", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Chu", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf course design is exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Kite", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Wright", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Mayer", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working on a children's book for a while, and I'd like to see that through.", "AUTHOR": "Colleen Haskell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Wally Lamb", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.", "AUTHOR": "David Milne", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.", "AUTHOR": "James Blake", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel E. Morison", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Caroll Shelby", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Hawkins", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Junius", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.", "AUTHOR": "John Anderson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved interior design.", "AUTHOR": "Genie Francis", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.", "AUTHOR": "Linwood Barclay", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hughes", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Stuyvesant", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sprouse", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.", "AUTHOR": "Bjarne Stroustrup", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Baskin", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Hart", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Trumbull", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Trumbull", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Trumbull", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.", "AUTHOR": "Nastia Liukin", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.", "AUTHOR": "Yukihiro Matsumoto", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Yukihiro Matsumoto", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Coppola", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.", "AUTHOR": "John Baldacci", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.", "AUTHOR": "David Crane", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.", "AUTHOR": "David Crane", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.", "AUTHOR": "William Bell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.", "AUTHOR": "Guido van Rossum", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.", "AUTHOR": "William Landay", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.", "AUTHOR": "Giambattista Valli", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Dunnett", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Reed", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'", "AUTHOR": "Tarsem Singh", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Schaff", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of design is context.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Madden", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Madden", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Madden", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.", "AUTHOR": "Larry J. Sabato", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Byron White", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.", "AUTHOR": "Jef Raskin", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kaye", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Watson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Carle", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligent design itself does not have any content.", "AUTHOR": "George Gilder", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Dell", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Coen", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design can change how you look at yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Pennington", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!", "AUTHOR": "Donald Wills Douglas", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Nouvel", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Ferguson", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.", "AUTHOR": "B. J. Novak", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth R. Miller", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth R. Miller", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth R. Miller", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "James Rouse", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Carson McCullers", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.", "AUTHOR": "George Edmund Street", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Glaser", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.", "AUTHOR": "Seymoure Cray", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'", "AUTHOR": "Dayo Okeniyi", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.", "AUTHOR": "David Bromstad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.", "AUTHOR": "David Bromstad", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Rowley", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Rowley", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Davis", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.", "AUTHOR": "John Langdon", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.", "AUTHOR": "John Tenniel", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Conner", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Isambard K. Brunel", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.", "AUTHOR": "Gianfranco Ferre", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.", "AUTHOR": "Gianfranco Ferre", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.", "AUTHOR": "James Hall", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Basso", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Choo", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.", "AUTHOR": "April Greiman", "GENRE": "design" }, { "QUOTE": "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Linford Christie", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.", "AUTHOR": "Joe E. Lewis", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Health food makes me sick.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Gleason", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it's something you have to do 25 days a month. Let's put it that way.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Haney", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Cuccurullo", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.", "AUTHOR": "John Mortimer", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in dieting.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Toomey", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "High-quality food is better for your health.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Campbell", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis Bextor", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Talent", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Haney", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Somers", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Smith", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "We can all put weight on or lose weight.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Emerson", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.", "AUTHOR": "Hattie McDaniel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.", "AUTHOR": "William Powell", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Fisher", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tunney", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.", "AUTHOR": "Totie Fields", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.", "AUTHOR": "William Banting", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Rubinstein", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be fat and fast, too so lift, run, diet and work.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Stram", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in fad diets.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Craig", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Froemming", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is an important part of a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.", "AUTHOR": "Irv Kupcinet", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Bittman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a wonderful disaster. So are you. We're all a mess. We're in this culture that says take this pill and you'll be happy, go on this diet and you'll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I do follow a version of the Dukan diet, but I don't follow it to the extreme so a lot of fish and vegetables. If I want chocolate I'll let myself have a bit of chocolate in moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!", "AUTHOR": "Richard Simmons", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Mariah Carey", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.", "AUTHOR": "Davey Havok", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried just about every crazy diet you can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "All the pre-made sauces in a jar, and frozen and canned vegetables, processed meats, and cheeses which are loaded with artificial ingredients and sodium can get in the way of a healthy diet. My number one advice is to eat fresh, and seasonally.", "AUTHOR": "Todd English", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Spurlock", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Foxx", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation with my daughter every day. It takes ten minutes. I think reducing stress plays a big part in anti-aging.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Murphy", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Harper", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.", "AUTHOR": "Britt Ekland", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Black", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Sauckel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Sauckel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Sauckel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Morrison", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Ushkowitz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Ushkowitz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't do faddy diets any more. I once did a no-carbs diet a few years ago but it made me depressed. I couldn't be doing with that!", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Spitz", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Paz Vega", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Orbach", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Burstyn", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to the gym five days a week and I have a personal trainer. I am on a strict diet, which is kind of hard to keep up with on the road, but I stick to it as well as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gramm", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.", "AUTHOR": "Lasse Hallstrom", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My doctor explained that exercise and diet changes might help and that I also might need a medication.", "AUTHOR": "Della Reese", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Stern", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done every diet there is.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Walsh", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Noth", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Chelsea Clinton", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Del Rey", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it.", "AUTHOR": "John Candy", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Holmes", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had cardiomyopathy, which is a non-coronary condition and is in no way related to diet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Sims", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Dayne", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Van Outen", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been on a fad diet.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Van Outen", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the opportunity to provide the first FDA reviewed and approved over-the-counter option that can help people lose weight and make changes to their lifestyle and diet.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Burton", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Bull", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet they are about denial and discipline.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Freston", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Freston", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Cartland", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Forbes", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Forbes", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Lauren Adams", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.", "AUTHOR": "Fannie Farmer", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Astin", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Ferriss", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Dukan", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Mine is the least fat diet in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Dukan", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Snowdon", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.", "AUTHOR": "Dolph Lundgren", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Baer", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.", "AUTHOR": "Mark E. Hyman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.", "AUTHOR": "Mark E. Hyman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.", "AUTHOR": "John McLaughlin", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.", "AUTHOR": "William Banting", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Mann", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Meyers", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel D. Palmer", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.", "AUTHOR": "Rube Goldberg", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Barnard", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Barnard", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Jacobs", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Jacobs", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Aldridge", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.", "AUTHOR": "Rue McClanahan", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Bittman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?", "AUTHOR": "Mark Bittman", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Shaw", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea McLean", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.", "AUTHOR": "Emilie de Ravin", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I read and watched about the meat industry, the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Olstead", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Goad", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Hoebel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Hoebel", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.", "AUTHOR": "George Wendt", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a very thin diet.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Shadwell", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'", "AUTHOR": "Mike Moreno", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.", "AUTHOR": "Du Fu", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Hoffenstein", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Jaine", "GENRE": "diet" }, { "QUOTE": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.", "AUTHOR": "T. E. Lawrence", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is the best meditation.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Owens", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Do all you can to make your dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to dream before your dreams can come true.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Cayce", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are the touchstones of our character.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are necessary to life.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.", "AUTHOR": "Joy Page", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Orbison", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream in a pragmatic way.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In dreams begins responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When you cease to dream you cease to live.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Roberts", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All men of action are dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "James Huneker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.", "AUTHOR": "M. C. Escher", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Thomas", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.", "AUTHOR": "Lope de Vega", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming men are haunted men.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Vincent Benet", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is a genius when he is dreaming.", "AUTHOR": "Akira Kurosawa", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Pride", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "E. V. Lucas", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Holmes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Brooks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Donald G. Mitchell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Schweitzer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The interpretation of dreams is a great art.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's a dreamer.", "AUTHOR": "John Lithgow", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Gilman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You can plant a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Campbell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lowell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.", "AUTHOR": "Usher", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Wilkens", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Kaufman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Smith", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Cohen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep true to the dreams of your youth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Norris Russell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Devers", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Gerstner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Bram Stoker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Corrie", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.", "AUTHOR": "Frida Kahlo", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Norman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Griffiths", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When the legends die, the dreams end there is no more greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Redbone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?", "AUTHOR": "Simon Sinek", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't design clothes, I design dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Lauren", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.", "AUTHOR": "Giotto di Bondone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I know how men in exile feed on dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Brooks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Montana", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.", "AUTHOR": "Chin-Ning Chu", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Aziz Ansari", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Porsche", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from your dreams what you lack.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?", "AUTHOR": "Stephen LaBerge", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bataille", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Durkheim", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Elizabeth", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.", "AUTHOR": "Otto Dix", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Armani", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Acker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Saddle your dreams before you ride em.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Webb", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is an African who dreams up snow.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Conklin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Lauren", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Gleason", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have those dreams that you can't put into words.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Debby Boone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had dreams about tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Genet", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Tabucchi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I love watching people's dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "And our dreams are who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.", "AUTHOR": "James Blunt", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Bill McCartney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul Gaultier", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jeter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Victor Hansen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.", "AUTHOR": "Julio Cortazar", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.'", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Lorraine Hansberry", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.", "AUTHOR": "Otto Dix", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.", "AUTHOR": "Man Ray", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Sugar Ray Leonard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream the impossible because dreams do come true.", "AUTHOR": "Elijah Wood", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolph Valentino", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I don't have my own wants and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first. It's primal.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Harmon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As you look back at your life, there are just a million different things that have happened, just in the right way, to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know, someone has all that under control.", "AUTHOR": "Michael P. Anderson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Bellucci", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Graham Sumner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "God, that dumping ground of our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Arsenio Hall", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said. I can't even imagine being in front of the cameras all the time. I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.", "AUTHOR": "Cleveland Abbe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Madden", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Napolean Hill", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!", "AUTHOR": "Paula Radcliffe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bryant", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Fisher", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Alexander", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams are all follies.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.", "AUTHOR": "Man Ray", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Chapin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.", "AUTHOR": "John Battelle", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to dream dreams to live dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Lindros", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Thorn", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'", "AUTHOR": "Karl Malone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It was never in my dreams to make my personal life anybody else's business.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No person has the right to rain on your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Moore", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.", "AUTHOR": "John Gardner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Baker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Howard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We live because of the dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Marat Safin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Duritz", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abrahams", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irons", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sparks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have absurdly vivid dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Morgenstern", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess.", "AUTHOR": "Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams seem to have a will of their own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Johnson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Bruno", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul Gaultier", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bernhard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jeter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Clarke Duncan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I married the man of my dreams in 1998.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Chamberlain", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Chapman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.", "AUTHOR": "John Astin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Martinez", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Castro", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Griffiths", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are the dreams of a shadow.", "AUTHOR": "Pindar", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Jackson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a great dreamer of day dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cahan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.", "AUTHOR": "LeRoy Neiman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hoffman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hoffman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Browne", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers their dreams because some people go into delta they go too low.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Browne", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction,' we all knew.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Adler", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Murphy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Berkley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.", "AUTHOR": "Rickey Henderson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Jontel Pimentel", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "William H. Macy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholson Baker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cannon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Dempsey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Lewis", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.", "AUTHOR": "Ivor Novello", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.", "AUTHOR": "David Talbot", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is making your dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Jourdan Dunn", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Heller", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Cojocaru", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.", "AUTHOR": "Radha Mitchell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.", "AUTHOR": "Donald G. Mitchell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Collins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Jordan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "An Academy Award nomination is stuff dreams are made of.", "AUTHOR": "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't give up your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.", "AUTHOR": "Zelda Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Krauss", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?", "AUTHOR": "John Amery", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Brian De Palma", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Burdon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't censor people's dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Robyn Hitchcock", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.", "AUTHOR": "Robyn Hitchcock", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are a scientific fact.", "AUTHOR": "Robyn Hitchcock", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.", "AUTHOR": "Siouxsie Sioux", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie du Toit", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.", "AUTHOR": "Chanel Iman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Spencer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Spencer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Barker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore Quasimodo", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let your dreams be dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Johnson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.", "AUTHOR": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Dickinson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.", "AUTHOR": "Raoul Vaneigem", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Rowland", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Clemens", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Clemens", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Diamandis", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We control the content of our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Gunn", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Pistorius", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jeter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Reiser", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Zaslow", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Menino", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hay", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.", "AUTHOR": "David Brooks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Del Rey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.", "AUTHOR": "Danny DeVito", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Never let your dreams go away.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Piazza", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nicholson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got heaps of dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Cornish", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Gless", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Godwin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to have dreams to keep you going.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Waugh", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Pettyfer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Masaharu Morimoto", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McAleese", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Mach", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Kyle", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Carpenter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Edwidge Danticat", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Castro", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Perrotta", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Stephenson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Pratt", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.", "AUTHOR": "David Amram", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!", "AUTHOR": "Felix Bloch", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Raban", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Raban", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Anderson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Gardiner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.", "AUTHOR": "John Agyekum Kufuor", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Ryunosuke Satoro", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Luke", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Luke", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.", "AUTHOR": "Fantasia Barrino", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to spend all my time writing to you I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Pirandello", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Billingsley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Rush", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Meyrink", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Hayes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Taylor", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Barks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Cam Gigandet", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bruni", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Woodring", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Love", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Winwood", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Chaske Spencer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Each has its lesson for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Timrod", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Parker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Kinnaman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.", "AUTHOR": "Sergey Brin", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. M. Stern", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.", "AUTHOR": "Djuna Barnes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in and follow your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Kristanna Loken", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lowell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Lovell Beddoes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Benson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Hart", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.", "AUTHOR": "Stefano Gabbana", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Cunningham", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.", "AUTHOR": "Janet McTeer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dolby", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Yune", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Auf der Maur", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Tremain", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Diaz-Balart", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Roybal-Allard", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Donald G. Mitchell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Kingsbury", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.", "AUTHOR": "AnnaLynne McCord", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Anaya", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I athletic? In my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Bonneville", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Donovan Bailey", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Miller", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very inspired by Les Blank's film 'Burden of Dreams.' I think what's unique about his film and the two I've made is that they're close examinations of filmmakers and how their own emotional experiences reflect in the material they're rendering, and vice versa - how that material sometimes colors their own lives.", "AUTHOR": "George Hickenlooper", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Smith", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.", "AUTHOR": "Genie Francis", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Hughes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.", "AUTHOR": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hopkins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Shewfelt", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Roberts", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Monk Kidd", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'", "AUTHOR": "Sue Monk Kidd", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.", "AUTHOR": "Uri Geller", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard De Nerval", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Keane", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Prior", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Dexter Gordon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.", "AUTHOR": "Stedman Graham", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.", "AUTHOR": "Cassandra Peterson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's surreal to know my dreams are coming true.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Vazquez", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Hayes", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Krista Allen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Heckerling", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.", "AUTHOR": "Romain Rolland", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie du Toit", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams sometimes foretell the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Hart", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Aragon", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jayma Mays", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.", "AUTHOR": "A. B. Yehoshua", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.", "AUTHOR": "Lucas Grabeel", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Carpenter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Yount", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Yount", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Benson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Joel McHale", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicky Hilton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Concha Buika", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Gerwig", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Card", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Cornish", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Russell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Valletta", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Farrell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Farrell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams can come true.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Romeo", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.", "AUTHOR": "Olive Schreiner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Webb", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Patterson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Machen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Machen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Machen", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Klein", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Taylor", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Brooks", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "AnnaSophia Robb", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Handler", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Handler", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Coe", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Pico Iyer", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Sergio Leone", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "John Huston", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Hartman", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Zellweger", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.", "AUTHOR": "William Sanderson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Noelle Levesque", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams have as much influence as actions.", "AUTHOR": "Stephane Mallarme", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Theroux", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Emerson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.", "AUTHOR": "Forest Whitaker", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Coventry", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Freudenthal", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Carell", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams grow holy put in action.", "AUTHOR": "Adelaide Anne Procter", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.", "AUTHOR": "Vikram Chatwal", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Braga", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'", "AUTHOR": "Diana Nyad", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Nyad", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Hawkins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.", "AUTHOR": "Janez Drnovsek", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.", "AUTHOR": "Irvin Kershner", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Loiseau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Liam McIntyre", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bishop", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio de Chirico", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Middleton", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan A. Hitchcock", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.", "AUTHOR": "Atifete Jahjaga", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Rutan", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.", "AUTHOR": "Marsilio Ficino", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Spender", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Roy", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Electronica", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Mears", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Lorenz Hart", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Ortiz", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Jo Johnson", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Perkins", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.", "AUTHOR": "Arna Bontemps", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Barty", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.", "AUTHOR": "Troy Dumais", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.", "AUTHOR": "Maria de Villota", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.", "AUTHOR": "John Cory", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "In our dreams we are always young.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Louise Delany", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "But I am delighted to be a Dodger, I grew up a Dodger fan and now my dreams have really come true.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Bradley", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid of your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Parizeau", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Arno", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.", "AUTHOR": "Libby Houston", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll see you in my dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Kahn", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.", "AUTHOR": "John S. Herrington", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Mangum", "GENRE": "dreams" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.", "AUTHOR": "A. Bartlett Giamatti", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "He who opens a school door, closes a prison.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The doer alone learneth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the end result of all true learning.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Dimnet", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to think continentally.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.", "AUTHOR": "Alan K. Simpson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.", "AUTHOR": "A. A. Milne", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Godwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is all a matter of building bridges.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Ellison", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An educated people can be easily governed.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick The Great", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Miller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.", "AUTHOR": "Al McGuire", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the transmission of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Your library is your paradise.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real failure in life is one not learned from.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "America is the best half-educated country in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas M. Butler", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always in season for old men to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.", "AUTHOR": "G. M. Trevelyan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibility educates.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Al Green", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The willingness to learn new skills is very high.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is what he reads.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Faye Bakker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Renan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Spinks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Every educated person is a future enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Bormann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Spark", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Our universities and museums are respected around the country.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Byrne", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Bloch", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let schooling interfere with your education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never let my school interfere with my education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I never let schooling interfere with my education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest result of education is tolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The giving of love is an education in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius without education is like silver in the mine.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best provision for old age.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is hanging around until you've caught on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has always had more force than education.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the cheap defense of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no education like adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The education of a man is never completed until he dies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a race between education and catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Segregation has no place in the education system.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of polite learning and a liberal education.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The education of women is the best way to save the environment.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Nine tenths of education is encouragement.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.", "AUTHOR": "Atal Bihari Vajpayee", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Bright", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The mere imparting of information is not education.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom can occur only through education.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Bok", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Erdos", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to education is the experience of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the ignorant who despise education.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Very likely education does not make very much difference.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the art of making man ethical.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "All real education is the architecture of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "William Bennett", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Means", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been a big believer in formal education.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Love", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Thomas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Bond", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Houston", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Jaworski", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.", "AUTHOR": "Buzz Aldrin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Graham-Smith", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Dees", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the movement from darkness to light.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Pullman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Thad Cochran", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I give the children education.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education has for its object the formation of character.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, like neurosis, begins at home.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Sapirstein", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in education and wish I had a better one.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Beauprez", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the best economic policy there is.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.", "AUTHOR": "Munshi Premchand", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.", "AUTHOR": "John Glenn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The formal education that I received made little sense to me.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not so important as people think.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Bassett", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.", "AUTHOR": "Robert. L. Ehrlich", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?", "AUTHOR": "Beah Richards", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.", "AUTHOR": "Wavy Gravy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is for growth and fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Mankiller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Keller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Hook", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Harris Jones", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.", "AUTHOR": "Itzhak Perlman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Vizinczey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Dunham", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Pearce", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Herman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I'm a national education figure.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'", "AUTHOR": "David Guetta", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.", "AUTHOR": "Gouverneur Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Johanson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lopez", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Plato", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Brooks Atkinson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.", "AUTHOR": "Glenda Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the mother of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Bond", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.", "AUTHOR": "Melinda Gates", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Bond", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Fortuno", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome Bruner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Kent Conrad", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Ross", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the things I think I learned from that were very educational as far as just paying bills - the basics in dealing with a restaurant like that. It was just life - the education involved in running the organization, even on a small level.", "AUTHOR": "Todd English", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a precondition to survival in America today.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Hooker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Caperton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Hollen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Blanco", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!", "AUTHOR": "Philip Pullman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Pullman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.", "AUTHOR": "John Baldacci", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuang Zi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.", "AUTHOR": "Mahesh Bhupathi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things are as essential as education.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.", "AUTHOR": "John Dickey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Fletcher", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.", "AUTHOR": "Alan K. Simpson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an education, I went to college, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Polizzi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the vaccine for violence.", "AUTHOR": "Edward James Olmos", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Brewer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Soderbergh", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got no education.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.", "AUTHOR": "Piers Anthony", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Antonia Fraser", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of a good education has never left me.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.", "AUTHOR": "Gwendolyn Brooks", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bannister", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Bastiat", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?", "AUTHOR": "Susan George", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin Newsom", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonso Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Moore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Barnes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Dalio", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes de Mille", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.", "AUTHOR": "Callan McAuliffe", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Shorter", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.", "AUTHOR": "William John Wills", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Jindal", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Campbell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Campbell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Donaldson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't be where I am today without the amazing public arts education that I had.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Morrison", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.", "AUTHOR": "Kamala Harris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hamlisch", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.", "AUTHOR": "Yoshihiko Noda", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Helms", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Let people have an education and you can't stop them.", "AUTHOR": "La Monte Young", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I did get a degree in special education.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.", "AUTHOR": "Chaka Fattah", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.", "AUTHOR": "John Engler", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Nunn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.", "AUTHOR": "George Savile", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A college education shows a man how little other people know.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Friel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.", "AUTHOR": "James S. Coleman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn't care about education. I don't know what I cared about.", "AUTHOR": "Skeet Ulrich", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.", "AUTHOR": "John Keegan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Brimelow", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.", "AUTHOR": "John Madden", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.", "AUTHOR": "Benedict Cumberbatch", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Rule", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Moseley Braun", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Moseley Braun", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Smits", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Scott", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Lesh", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.", "AUTHOR": "John Grierson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a greater goal - to empower young people through music education.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Coen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Health and education are always issues.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Clark", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Howard", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Barton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Miller", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.", "AUTHOR": "David Oyelowo", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Martin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.", "AUTHOR": "David Horowitz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Haley", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Pierre Raffarin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a vacine for violence.", "AUTHOR": "Edward James Olmos", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward James Olmos", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely had a top-notch education.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Giamatti", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.", "AUTHOR": "Isaiah Mustafa", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Vaughn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Brees", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Glover", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Bond", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Taft", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Bright", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mikulski", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Bonilla", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Braugher", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Ulrich Beck", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Sizemore", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.", "AUTHOR": "Joschka Fischer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Badnarik", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education liberates a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?", "AUTHOR": "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.", "AUTHOR": "John Sterling", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.", "AUTHOR": "Bev Perdue", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that's how I grew up.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Brazile", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we're committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Bancroft", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.", "AUTHOR": "Sparky Anderson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Hill", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Vinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Vinton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Lamont", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Mills", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.", "AUTHOR": "Nat King Cole", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.", "AUTHOR": "Harri Holkeri", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.", "AUTHOR": "Harri Holkeri", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.", "AUTHOR": "Harri Holkeri", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.", "AUTHOR": "Michele Bachmann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.", "AUTHOR": "Michele Bachmann", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Pastor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Repplier", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Carlton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Rell", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Bawden", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Burns", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Neville", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Bourdieu", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin Newsom", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big believer in education, period.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Secada", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Secada", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonso Jackson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Secada", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.", "AUTHOR": "John Conyers", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dodd", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Barnes", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "John Strachan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Van Ronk", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in local control of education.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Feingold", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hailey", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Astor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.", "AUTHOR": "Cristina Saralegui", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.", "AUTHOR": "David Baker", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Khan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Burton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 - I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Burton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bissinger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bissinger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.", "AUTHOR": "John Agyekum Kufuor", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Walton", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Salinger", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.", "AUTHOR": "Hans-Georg Gadamer", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.", "AUTHOR": "James Payn", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "When you Google me, you'll find a lot of people don't like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I'm cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there's 100 percent support for that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Niven", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Blumenthal", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.", "AUTHOR": "Alonzo Mourning", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.", "AUTHOR": "Kent McCord", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied secondary education.", "AUTHOR": "Jim McKay", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "education" }, { "QUOTE": "The environment is everything that isn't me.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Tory Peterson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We must return to nature and nature's god.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Fowler", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bradley", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tsongas", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Weaver", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buckley", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Tory Peterson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.", "AUTHOR": "Donella Meadows", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!", "AUTHOR": "David R. Brower", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Brower", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Brower", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Principal", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Malthus", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.", "AUTHOR": "Donella Meadows", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Tory Peterson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.", "AUTHOR": "Norm Dicks", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Burgess", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dodd", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.", "AUTHOR": "Olympia Snowe", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Lee Ray", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Lee Ray", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.", "AUTHOR": "Gale Norton", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?", "AUTHOR": "Gale Norton", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Blackburn", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Weaver", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.", "AUTHOR": "Will Steger", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.", "AUTHOR": "John Ray", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.", "AUTHOR": "James Inhofe", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Murkowski", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Murkowski", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.", "AUTHOR": "Ace Frehley", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Dunn", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Alexander", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Gaylord Nelson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.", "AUTHOR": "Edward James Olmos", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.", "AUTHOR": "Galen Rowell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.", "AUTHOR": "Galen Rowell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Blix", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Glover", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Gonzalez", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Gonzalez", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.", "AUTHOR": "Aisha Tyler", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Anderson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmar Gabriel", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Richardson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.", "AUTHOR": "Harri Holkeri", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Sterling", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Gregg", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.", "AUTHOR": "John Hickenlooper", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Franti", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Kelly", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Margulis", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Danson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not trying to reinvent the wheel for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Danson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Danson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Danson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nye", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Gardner", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dundes", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Miller", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Thornberry", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Fedoroff", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lugar", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Rendell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Rendell", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Boehlert", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Boehlert", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Boehlert", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Weaver", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.", "AUTHOR": "Peter DeFazio", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Olbermann", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Wright", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Barton", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.", "AUTHOR": "John Anderson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.", "AUTHOR": "John Anderson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Sanders", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Gary L. Francione", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.", "AUTHOR": "Preston Manning", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric.", "AUTHOR": "David Pratt", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bingaman", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Trumka", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Brady", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.", "AUTHOR": "Gaylord Nelson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.", "AUTHOR": "Gaylord Nelson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Gaylord Nelson", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.", "AUTHOR": "Mackenzie Crook", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Cope", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.", "AUTHOR": "Michael E. Mann", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jeffords", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jeffords", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.", "AUTHOR": "John Coleman", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas R. Cech", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Buchanan", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.", "AUTHOR": "John Portman", "GENRE": "environmental" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Parks", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Schurz", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The battle for women's rights has been largely won.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.", "AUTHOR": "David Allan Coe", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.", "AUTHOR": "Harry A. Blackmun", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Chisholm", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Kristol", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Boas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The cry of equality pulls everyone down.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Alito", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue can only flourish among equals.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Ellerbee", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Honda", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "All imaginable futures are not equally possible.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody really believes in equality anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Macphail", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are born equally free.", "AUTHOR": "Salmon P. Chase", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Tarja Halonen", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.", "AUTHOR": "Mercy Otis Warren", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Shipley", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.", "AUTHOR": "Crystal Eastman", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bunch", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.", "AUTHOR": "John Randolph", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Fourier", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.", "AUTHOR": "Brigid Brophy", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Candor is a compliment it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Noonan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Socialism values equality more than liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Paul", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadette Devlin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Dees", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The sole equality on earth is death.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Bridges", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage equality changed life for people.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class to secure opportunity and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Morial", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Vargas Llosa", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clayton", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilien Robespierre", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Campbell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dirac", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tsongas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.", "AUTHOR": "George Smathers", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Lewis", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1965, I marched for equality.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonso Jackson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete steps towards gender equality and women's empowerment, I think is one of the main challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.", "AUTHOR": "Max Nordau", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a world where equality is pretty important.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.", "AUTHOR": "Bashar al-Assad", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Campbell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality implies individuality.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCarthy", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Pinker", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.", "AUTHOR": "John Hume", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Reich", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences a country that respects all, regardless of their differences a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Martin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Martin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.", "AUTHOR": "J. M. Barrie", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Clark", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Macphail", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Malthus", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Cox", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Macklemore", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Brooks", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Wright", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?", "AUTHOR": "Krzysztof Kieslowski", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Celler", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Croly", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.", "AUTHOR": "Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.", "AUTHOR": "Raoul Vaneigem", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Buckley", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.", "AUTHOR": "Pranab Mukherjee", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Hideki Tojo", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Tucker", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.", "AUTHOR": "Catharine MacKinnon", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Toombs", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Toombs", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Miliband", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Lamont", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Livingstone", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Rosen", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Parker", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Hjalmar Branting", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Hjalmar Branting", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kinsley", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Mount", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.", "AUTHOR": "Tom G. Palmer", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.", "AUTHOR": "David Horowitz", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Chung", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Bomer", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Cross", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.", "AUTHOR": "Geoff Hoon", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moss", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality he carried the American flag.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Cronauer", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Gilligan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Pryor", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.", "AUTHOR": "Mordecai Wyatt Johnson", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Tarja Halonen", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.", "AUTHOR": "Louis de Bernieres", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Maloney", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bunch", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen Reagan", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Chinchilla", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Howard Shaw", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hugh Clough", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.", "AUTHOR": "Janez Drnovsek", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "Tran Duc Luong", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.", "AUTHOR": "Johanna Siguroardottir", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Tribe", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "John Hope", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Stone", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Lyman Trumbull", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.", "AUTHOR": "Alice S. Rossi", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.", "AUTHOR": "Slobodan Milosevic", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.", "AUTHOR": "Slobodan Milosevic", "GENRE": "equality" }, { "QUOTE": "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only source of knowledge is experience.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The years teach much which the days never know.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.", "AUTHOR": "Wallis Simpson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the teacher of all things.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience teaches only the teachable.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Peter Balkenende", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Conviction without experience makes for harshness.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep experience is never peaceful.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All that I know I learned after I was thirty.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Clemenceau", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every moment is an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Roberts", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Brooks", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.", "AUTHOR": "Frank McCourt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are each responsible for all of our experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Louise L. Hay", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.", "AUTHOR": "Agnetha Faltskog", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Ally Sheedy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.", "AUTHOR": "A. E. Housman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a great teacher.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All experience is an arch, to build upon.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Randolph Bourne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.", "AUTHOR": "John Frusciante", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we are a product of all our experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Bandura", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Color is an intense experience on its own.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hodges", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Wriston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to have faith, I have experience.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Berle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Law", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Washington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.", "AUTHOR": "George Mason", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Arbus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The reward of suffering is experience.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.", "AUTHOR": "Ram Dass", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Houston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.", "AUTHOR": "Moses Hadas", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Any experience can be transformed into something of value.", "AUTHOR": "Vash Young", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Perry", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Levant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Besant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Horning", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Moore", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Masako", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Callahan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Garrison", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.", "AUTHOR": "Selena Gomez", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "God is only a great imaginative experience.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Parker", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Hughes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I write out of my intellectual experience.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.", "AUTHOR": "William Kingdon Clifford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to education is the experience of beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hardwick", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.", "AUTHOR": "Navjot Singh Sidhu", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Debbi Fields", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Masaru Ibuka", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Guitry", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If we didn't want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.", "AUTHOR": "John Baldacci", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Franz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Shorter", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.", "AUTHOR": "John Heywood", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?", "AUTHOR": "Beck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Plato", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Chrissie Hynde", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every experience makes you a man.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bacon", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Alexander", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Harvey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Witten", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Taft Benson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Rukeyser", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Zwick", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Bram Stoker", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'", "AUTHOR": "David O. Russell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences if they're not, he'll suffer for it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lucado", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Dash", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Farnham", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is what you get while looking for something else.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Fellini", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Clemens", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Bolivar", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Baio", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Neville", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.", "AUTHOR": "Sholem Asch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is our common ground, a universal experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Beard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.", "AUTHOR": "Chauncey Wright", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Agassi", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Winters", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.", "AUTHOR": "Antonin Scalia", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've got a piece and you can feel the person who's going to direct it is really made for it, if it's really special for them, then it's going to be a better-than-usual experience.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lee", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Close", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Butterworth", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Producing is just a big learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Obey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.", "AUTHOR": "William Styron", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Hammill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Laffer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.", "AUTHOR": "Roddy Doyle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Sheckler", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.", "AUTHOR": "Vinoba Bhave", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.", "AUTHOR": "Al Capp", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Ginsberg", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Emin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Blanchard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Ives", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "All experience is subjective.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no wrong way to experience a film.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're out there stressing on your pro day, then you're not going to perform well, so I plan on having a little fun. Play a little music while we're out there throwing the football, have everybody tapping their toes and bobbing their head and just go out there and make the most of the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.", "AUTHOR": "Eudora Welty", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I learn from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no experience like on-the-job training.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Gygax", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Buechner", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Moyers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mariah Carey", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Fisher", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate these platforms that are all over the place today they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.", "AUTHOR": "April Winchell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wright", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Eccleston", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Ives", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.", "AUTHOR": "Bessie Coleman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lehrer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Klaus", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.", "AUTHOR": "Aubrey O'Day", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Moravia", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.", "AUTHOR": "Raul Julia", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Lacan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Bennington", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Stan Smith", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Mach", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.", "AUTHOR": "William Whewell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mckellen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.", "AUTHOR": "Keenen Ivory Wayans", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the extract of suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Driver", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you build that foundation, both the moral and the ethical foundation, as well as the business foundation, and the experience foundation, then the building won't crumble.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Kravis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Christa McAuliffe", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Gygax", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Feller", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Daly", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Slater", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Edwards", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac D'Israeli", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.", "AUTHOR": "Bashar al-Assad", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.", "AUTHOR": "Bashar al-Assad", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Palmer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Nightingale", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jasper Johns", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Epps", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Schrodinger", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some things you only learn through experience.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Willis", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Mach", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Krall", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in love is the only transcendent experience.", "AUTHOR": "Armistead Maupin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Salles", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.", "AUTHOR": "Orville Wright", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Jahn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.", "AUTHOR": "David Antin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cumming", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Branagh", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Jones", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.", "AUTHOR": "Renny Harlin", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Siodmak", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Keitel", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.", "AUTHOR": "John Abizaid", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Rihanna", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Packwood", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "experience" }, { "QUOTE": "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.", "AUTHOR": "H. Stanley Judd", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that failure is an event, not a person.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no failure except in no longer trying.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Beckett", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a word unknown to me.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.", "AUTHOR": "Dorthea Brande", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Every failure is a step to success.", "AUTHOR": "William Whewell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Baxter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "Sumner Redstone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Canning", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and failure are equally disastrous.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Rockne", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The only risk of failure is promotion.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A life which does not go into action is a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.", "AUTHOR": "Soichiro Honda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is never final, but failure can be.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is always an option.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Murdock", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.", "AUTHOR": "Maude Adams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My life has been nothing but a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Monet", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You always pass failure on your way to success.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rooney", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hopkins", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!", "AUTHOR": "William Lloyd Garrison", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Picabia", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schwab", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.", "AUTHOR": "S. I. Hayakawa", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.", "AUTHOR": "Humphry Davy", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.", "AUTHOR": "Roger von Oech", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Berlioz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Noll", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Baxter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Palmer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is success if we learn from it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Woodberry", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My reputation grows with every failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cochrane", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalynn Carter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Half", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is a failure who is enjoying life.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.", "AUTHOR": "Robert W. Service", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Not failure, but low aim, is crime.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.", "AUTHOR": "Louis E. Boone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Lennon", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pickford", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "War remains the decisive human failure.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Kaufman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Napolean Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real failure in life is one not learned from.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Kravis", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Mahler", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.", "AUTHOR": "Erik Erikson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure has gone to his head.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Errol Flynn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be able to accept failure to get better.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Translation is the art of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Bayard Swope", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Not failure, but low aim is sin.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin E. Mays", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a part of success.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fripp", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A minute's success pays the failure of years.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no right or wrong, success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lasorda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lasorda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Buble", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "All war represents a failure of diplomacy.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Benn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure's a natural part of life.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Kiam", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The only failure is not to try.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilian Schell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Player", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Lemmon", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Sane", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure too is a form of death.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wood", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Samuel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Reznor", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.", "AUTHOR": "William Howard Taft", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Parks", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Cukor", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Haig", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.", "AUTHOR": "Maude Adams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Connors", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.", "AUTHOR": "Gifford Pinchot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you try to do your best there is no failure.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Farrell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Gilley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jensen Ackles", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lawrence", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bach", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You shouldn't be afraid of failure - when something fails, you think, 'What did I learn from that experience? I can do better next time.' Then kill that project and move on to the next. Don't get disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Sorvino", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Xavier Becerra", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hedges", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!", "AUTHOR": "Don Johnson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is 99 percent failure.", "AUTHOR": "Soichiro Honda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Liebknecht", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "John Haggai", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Daltrey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Skousen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.", "AUTHOR": "Rickey Henderson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure? Scared to death of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Seacrest", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.", "AUTHOR": "T. Boone Pickens", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.", "AUTHOR": "T. Boone Pickens", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.", "AUTHOR": "Wynonna Judd", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.", "AUTHOR": "Desi Arnaz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Ferneyhough", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Ferneyhough", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Morris West", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.", "AUTHOR": "Roddy Doyle", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "With failure, you just try again.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Giacometti", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Richard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Ratner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Don Shula", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.", "AUTHOR": "Branch Rickey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Most", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.", "AUTHOR": "William Kingdon Clifford", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Moffat", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.", "AUTHOR": "Elliot Richardson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe only in art and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Rule", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Ferry", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Moseley Braun", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Whitton", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Bruckheimer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.", "AUTHOR": "Morton Hunt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.", "AUTHOR": "Greil Marcus", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Boortz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Quigley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard as an American to support the failure of American military operations in Iraq. Such failure will bring with it the death and wounding of many American service members, and many more Iraqis.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.", "AUTHOR": "Berkeley Breathed", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Geithner", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is unfortunately as common as success.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Kumar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "What we've got here is a failure to communicate.", "AUTHOR": "Donn Pearce", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome Lawrence", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Godin", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irons", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irons", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Soderbergh", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carr", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Herzl", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Issa", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Shandling", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.", "AUTHOR": "Lee H. Hamilton", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Baker", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Orbach", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.", "AUTHOR": "Shannen Doherty", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Haden Church", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Haden Church", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.", "AUTHOR": "David Limbaugh", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Inglis", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Hook", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Russell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Pearce", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Price", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Van Ronk", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Hunt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Baden", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Hansen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Housman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Berg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Wamp", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Emmons", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Johnson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Drabble", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Moyers", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.", "AUTHOR": "China Mieville", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Donaldson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.", "AUTHOR": "Hideki Tojo", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.", "AUTHOR": "John Osborne", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.", "AUTHOR": "James F. Byrnes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.", "AUTHOR": "Richard V. Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shearer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "War is failure of diplomacy.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Hinojosa", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Goldberg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Goldberg", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Ali Larter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chertoff", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'", "AUTHOR": "Dana Fox", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ringwald", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas John Watson, Sr.", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.", "AUTHOR": "Don Nickles", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Tweedy", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't come home a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Cobb", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Paddy Ashdown", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Young", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Young", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Young", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Raban", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is always less funny than failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Ronson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Rose", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The hippy movement was a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Strummer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Rigby", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.", "AUTHOR": "Xavier Becerra", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Hollen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.", "AUTHOR": "Boutros Boutros-Ghali", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Slavoj Zizek", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?", "AUTHOR": "Chester W. Nimitz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rice", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.", "AUTHOR": "John Sherman Cooper", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Moyer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Tunney", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.", "AUTHOR": "John Mica", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Napolean Hill", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Holmes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Holmes", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Dee Williams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A love of nature is a consolation against failure.", "AUTHOR": "Berthe Morisot", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Marclay", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!", "AUTHOR": "Agnetha Faltskog", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Koryta", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalyn S. Yalow", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Harris", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sheila Jackson Lee", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Guarini", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Vijay Mallya", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Pitino", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Bettelheim", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Hart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.", "AUTHOR": "John P. Kotter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Vachss", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Kite", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Howard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Dale", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalynn Carter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Ross", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Neagle", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Eysenck", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Brooks", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "George Hickenlooper", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the work performed by a development engineer results in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Koichi Tanaka", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Sessions", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Korman", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.", "AUTHOR": "Shinzo Abe", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Edwards", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Beckley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Yilmaz", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Blunt", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Baldwin", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Lidle", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Kendal", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Steward", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always time for failure.", "AUTHOR": "John Mortimer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Corzine", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.", "AUTHOR": "John Poindexter", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.", "AUTHOR": "John Larroquette", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Knox", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Inouye", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Gilligan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabetta Canalis", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.", "AUTHOR": "Alice James", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Babington Macaulay", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.", "AUTHOR": "Gavyn Davies", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.", "AUTHOR": "Hart Crane", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.", "AUTHOR": "John Hersey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.", "AUTHOR": "John Hersey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.", "AUTHOR": "Roger von Oech", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Bryce Dallas Howard", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Cade Bambara", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Bear", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Adams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!", "AUTHOR": "Takeshi Kitano", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Brinkley", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.", "AUTHOR": "Frederic William Farrar", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,'out of there.'", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Pena", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Bloch", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Garlin Spencer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.", "AUTHOR": "Maude Adams", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Smith", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "One failure is worth seven and a half successes.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Khamarov", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing fails like failure.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Drabble", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Giambi", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Twitchell", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brown", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.", "AUTHOR": "An Wang", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas John Watson, Sr.", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Case", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.", "AUTHOR": "William Empson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Peters", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Gift", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Moore", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.", "AUTHOR": "Millicent Fawcett", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Alexander", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Foote MacDougall", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Tiki Barber", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Farrar Capon", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.", "AUTHOR": "George Edmund Street", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.", "AUTHOR": "Tom A. Watson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Crawford", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Crawford", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Rutan", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Leslie", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.", "AUTHOR": "Colin R. Davis", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Student", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Hoggart", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Never permit failure to become a habit.", "AUTHOR": "William Frederick Book", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Dellums", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.", "AUTHOR": "Montgomery Clift", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Tahari", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.", "AUTHOR": "E. Franklin Frazier", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another, and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure, there was no such thing as just getting over it.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Barris", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Dauten", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Dowden", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond H. Fischer", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ramsey", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Malone", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.", "AUTHOR": "Hildegard Knef", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Savage", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Danto", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Eggleston", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not fatal victory is not success.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Richardson", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Breedlove", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "failure" }, { "QUOTE": "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God always takes the simplest way.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuel Teney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Jones", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith: not wanting to know what is true.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave in, and admitted that God was God.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We are never defeated unless we give up on God.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of courage is also full of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God enters by a private door into every individual.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The faith that stands on authority is not faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray, and let God worry.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We are twice armed if we fight with faith.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.", "AUTHOR": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.", "AUTHOR": "D. Elton Trueblood", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Cameron", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a passionate intuition.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is spiritualized imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Have faith in God God has faith in you.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God never made a promise that was too good to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I live and love in God's peculiar light.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God continues to work miracles in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To me faith means not worrying.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Cromwell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Brunton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Hinn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.", "AUTHOR": "Owen D. Young", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I hold that religion and faith are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buckley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.", "AUTHOR": "David Livingstone", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Lange", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is reason grown courageous.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Eddy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Only faith is sufficient.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Morris", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "John Woolman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Whichcote", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision looks upward and becomes faith.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Samuel Wise", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not contrary to reason.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Eddy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Malone", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-violence is the article of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith never makes a confession.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to have faith, I have experience.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear clogs faith liberates.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Devers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is the enemy of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A library implies an act of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wesley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen G. White", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a state of openness or trust.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Barton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Duty cannot exist without faith.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Bandura", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine L'Engle", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.", "AUTHOR": "John L. Lewis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've lost my faith in science.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Base souls have no faith in great individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.", "AUTHOR": "Olusegun Obasanjo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith Hill is a big role model.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Beaumont", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You just have to have a simple faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.", "AUTHOR": "G. I. Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Whittaker Chambers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle part of faith is patience.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Society lives by faith, and develops by science.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Obedience is the fruit of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Williams", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Roy L. Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen G. White", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Barnfield", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Wakeman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Letitia Barbauld", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.", "AUTHOR": "Aiden Wilson Tozer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.", "AUTHOR": "Mike McCurry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.", "AUTHOR": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Benn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "By gold all good faith has been banished by gold our rights are abused the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.", "AUTHOR": "Sextus Propertius", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need faith.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Kaufmann", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I had lost faith in biography.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cram", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Garrison", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Wallace", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Graham Sumner", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Zuckerman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Ingelow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Price", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.", "AUTHOR": "G. I. Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ray Cyrus", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Fry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Messiaen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Evans", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Chester W. Nimitz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Summitt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Brown", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is never identical with piety.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Becket", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In my career as an actor, there is a catchphrase that Scofield always says often in regards to his brother, 'Have a little faith.' In my own career as an actor, there were times when I was the only one who believed in myself in the face of the odds.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is personal if it's to be real.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah More", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.", "AUTHOR": "Austin Farrer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hatfield", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Kodjoe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Fortuno", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Sheen", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Marie Combs", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Leah Ward Sears", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I prepare. Then I have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Donahue", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Rodman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never lost my faith in God.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.", "AUTHOR": "J. William Fulbright", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great faith in God and Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clarke", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Is a faith without action a sincere faith?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Racine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Caviezel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.", "AUTHOR": "Roberta Flack", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lehrer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Peck", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.", "AUTHOR": "David Viscott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.", "AUTHOR": "John Tesh", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Henry Parkhurst", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith makes it more likely he or she will support policies that align with their values.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Suskind", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The faith I was born into formed me.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Have faith in your own thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.", "AUTHOR": "Juliana Hatfield", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Armistead Maupin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Kodjoe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Kodjoe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Cochran", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.", "AUTHOR": "John Hoeven", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Morris", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeds of faith are always within us sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Taylor", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.", "AUTHOR": "David Ben-Gurion", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Fillmore", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.", "AUTHOR": "Hattie McDaniel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Richards", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Cushing", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.", "AUTHOR": "Whittaker Chambers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Martin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Simeon", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to act out of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Hinn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Lewis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.", "AUTHOR": "James L. Buckley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Kuyper", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.", "AUTHOR": "Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.", "AUTHOR": "Fantasia Barrino", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.", "AUTHOR": "Yannick Noah", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have faith in the jury system.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Grace", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Ennis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Greene", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Shocked", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith always has been and always will be important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Aretha Franklin", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Ann Romney makes all women proud by the way she has conducted her life as a strong woman of faith, as a mother, as a wife and as a true patriot.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Haley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really go down one path. I wouldn't call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldn't put myself into any organized faith.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Cain", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Simmel", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lang", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Lay", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Vaughn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Rutherford", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Dinesh D'Souza", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Bertinelli", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carr", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Crichton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Abbey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clooney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Hodge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Hodge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.", "AUTHOR": "Rafael Nadal", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hannity", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he's a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Schwartz", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tsongas", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Gold", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Garrett", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Brown", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Moody", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.", "AUTHOR": "Ginny Brown-Waite", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Welch", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Ann Mobley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Reed", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Rell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Romain Rolland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.", "AUTHOR": "William Gurnall", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.", "AUTHOR": "William Gurnall", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gaffney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Croly", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Croly", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfrid Laurier", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Williams", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Cline", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of faith in people.", "AUTHOR": "John Lithgow", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.", "AUTHOR": "George Carey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Monk", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Reichert", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hensley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Morris", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Denton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.", "AUTHOR": "Freya Stark", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.", "AUTHOR": "Chelsea Clinton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .", "AUTHOR": "Mordecai Wyatt Johnson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.", "AUTHOR": "Wes Bentley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the heroism of the intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Henry Parkhurst", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.", "AUTHOR": "Pranab Mukherjee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Karon", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?", "AUTHOR": "George Fox", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Buyer", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Berrigan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Sheldrake", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Sheldrake", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Sheldrake", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Linklater", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If faith is your motivation, share that.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Kaine", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Lee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.", "AUTHOR": "Whittaker Chambers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.", "AUTHOR": "Whittaker Chambers", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.", "AUTHOR": "William P. Leahy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.", "AUTHOR": "William P. Leahy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.", "AUTHOR": "Leverett Saltonstall", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Alberta Hunter", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hamlisch", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Bell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Bell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Bell", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Helms", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cecil", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Rickitt", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.", "AUTHOR": "James Marsters", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Holbrooke", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arad", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Carter", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Cole", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cahan", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Goytisolo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Goytisolo", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to develop, somehow, a huge amount of faith and confidence in yourself, because there's a lot of rejection throughout an actor's life and you have to believe in yourself more than anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Collins", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shuster", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ward Howe", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Miliband", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Miliband", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.", "AUTHOR": "Don King", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Luke", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Luke", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Hoggart", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hatfield", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Jarman", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Have a little faith. Don't give up.", "AUTHOR": "Fantasia Barrino", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Wright", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own I had just grown up with it.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Kaufmann", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.", "AUTHOR": "Horst Koehler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Polanyi", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Foley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.", "AUTHOR": "Alcee Hastings", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Roberts", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.", "AUTHOR": "Alejo Carpentier", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.", "AUTHOR": "John Bacon", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ley", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Ioan Gruffudd", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.", "AUTHOR": "John Lewis", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Gaynor", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Rich Lowry", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Eddy", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Wright", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Malebranche", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Malebranche", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilder", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Becket", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.", "AUTHOR": "Callie Khouri", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Conrad", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Skaggs", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Thompson", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Swann", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ramsey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Rauschenbusch", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Sweeney", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.", "AUTHOR": "Chubby Checker", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Price", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.", "AUTHOR": "George Seaton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Price", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Southcott", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.", "AUTHOR": "John Lancaster Spalding", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Sheila Jackson Lee", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Goudge", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.", "AUTHOR": "David Knopfler", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ignatius Loyola", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Owen Glendower", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Trollope", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had great faith in people.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Newton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a higher faculty than reason.", "AUTHOR": "H. C. Bailey", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Newton", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Bernard", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.", "AUTHOR": "James Hal Cone", "GENRE": "faith" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family is not an important thing. It's everything.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family is the most important thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy family is but an earlier heaven.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.", "AUTHOR": "Tom DeLay", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A man should never neglect his family for business.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.", "AUTHOR": "Cary Grant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.", "AUTHOR": "Ednita Nazario", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is one of nature's masterpieces.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is my strength and my weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Aishwarya Rai", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Lafleur", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrd", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Vartan Gregorian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'", "AUTHOR": "Harmon Killebrew", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is the first essential cell of human society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Fishel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Haley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.", "AUTHOR": "Ring Lardner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Daley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is the nucleus of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anyone has a normal family.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Furlong", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Duke", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids give me the balance to live right.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis just a game, family is forever.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Drabble", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Oz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Love", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Enzi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Kelly", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ehrlich", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Alexa Vega", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is more important than my party.", "AUTHOR": "Zell Miller", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I stay in tune with my family and God.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather start a family than finish one.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to defend your honor. And your family.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Vega", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dudley Warner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Warburton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.", "AUTHOR": "Bernice Weissbourd", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Haley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family.", "AUTHOR": "Manute Bol", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Wilson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family was my guide to my reality.", "AUTHOR": "Haywood Nelson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.", "AUTHOR": "Al Roker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I live quietly at home among my family and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Tabucchi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Cruz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard G. Scott", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Richard G. Scott", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.", "AUTHOR": "David McCallum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family, nature and health all go together.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Newton-John", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Knight", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.", "AUTHOR": "Akhmad Kadyrov", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stiglitz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.", "AUTHOR": "Nastassja Kinski", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family background was deeply Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Abbe Pierre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Smedley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Reagan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.", "AUTHOR": "Darius Rucker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Our family life was certainly not intellectual.", "AUTHOR": "Douglass North", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Barr", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fonda", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Knox", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Hackett", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Green", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manchin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Satir", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors are one family over the entire world.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Haniel Long", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.", "AUTHOR": "Willard Scott", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Jindal", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "With all my fans I got a family again.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.", "AUTHOR": "Gracie Allen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Alexander Eastman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing in the world is family and love.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Clark", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All in the Family was intellectual it was art.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.", "AUTHOR": "J. Edgar Hoover", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Kim", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Douglas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My work and my family are very important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I had this child, and it destroyed my family.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Conroy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing second, the gratification of one's family and friends and lastly, the solid cash.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Land", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Wallace", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Houdini", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.", "AUTHOR": "Li Na", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything family does is reflection on the other people.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I talked about my family, my family's so important.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Cooper", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Anaya", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Webber", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.", "AUTHOR": "Al Sharpton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Andretti", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.", "AUTHOR": "Nik Wallenda", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make sure my family's straight.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there we're a band of brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Dunn", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family really does come first. It always did and always will.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.", "AUTHOR": "T. E. Lawrence", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.", "AUTHOR": "B. B. King", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you could sail your entire family out to Australia, so that's what my father chose to do.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, my parents are hippies.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.", "AUTHOR": "George Cadbury", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.", "AUTHOR": "David Beckham", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Reichert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Crow", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Carvey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.", "AUTHOR": "Antonin Scalia", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mandrell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeing the family is a very important part of my weekend.", "AUTHOR": "Susannah York", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Morello", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dorsett", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Fry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.", "AUTHOR": "Joe DiMaggio", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to have a family.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family and I built my whole career from scratch.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bingaman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a Navy family.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cormier", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very lucky, I have a very tight group of friends and a very supportive family, and to this date no-one has ever sold a story on me.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.", "AUTHOR": "B. B. King", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Honda", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Singletary", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a saviour or a royal family.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody sung in my family.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.", "AUTHOR": "Hulagu Khan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Gibb", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a big fan of smelly cheeses but the rest of the family don't seem to be particularly keen on them.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my family to resemble the family I came from.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to do a family movie.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Lowe", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Trigiani", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Nunn", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a mother that's very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.", "AUTHOR": "Chaz Bono", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happiest with my family around me.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.", "AUTHOR": "John Sculley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?'", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the git in the family.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will be, the key to such families.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bunning", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family and friends treat me as they always have.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My health and my family are the core of my being.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do come from a strong family.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Moynahan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you rebel in a family of rebels?", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Deschanel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.", "AUTHOR": "James Brown", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Pistorius", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Sweeney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is the school of duties - founded on love.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family were from Jamaica.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Landon", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors - old friends, family.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Leonard", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Royko", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Lively", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ratzenberger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Brickell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I text a lot people, because it's how I stay connected with all my family and friends when I'm on set and traveling.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family belongs to a tennis club in Valencia, California, so I always go there. I play a lot of tennis with my dad and swim. And I like to go to the gym there.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Obey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a family.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pitt", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the first person to go to university from my family.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Rieu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.", "AUTHOR": "David Plouffe", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.", "AUTHOR": "Hans-Georg Gadamer", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa DeLauro", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My rule is, whatever you were calling me four years ago is what you should be calling me now, because I don't like it when my family or close friends call me Nicki Minaj. To me I'm not Nicki Minaj when I'm with them.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Alinsky", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Gardner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.", "AUTHOR": "Kit Bond", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Furlong", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Bellucci", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a lot of writing about my family.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family is becoming more and more important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L'Oreal Paris family. I'm such a fan of L'Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sarandon", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Horowitz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Ilka Chase", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But in my heart of hearts, this is the kind of thing... this is what everyone is struggling with in their lives - relationships and family. To me, it's always an interesting area to mine. I'm drawn to it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.", "AUTHOR": "Sergio Aragones", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Solo", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip Noyce", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Lieberman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no fun. My family was too serious.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.", "AUTHOR": "James Earl Jones", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Raitt", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Altman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Butler Hathaway", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.", "AUTHOR": "Sheldon Adelson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lovely family who supports me and it's great.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.", "AUTHOR": "Al Sharpton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a dysfunctional family.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Gilbert", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.", "AUTHOR": "T. Boone Pickens", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.", "AUTHOR": "C. J. Cherryh", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Spacey", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Finding that balance between work and family is the hardest thing I've ever done - by far.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Albom", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Applegate", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a royal family watcher.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Falco", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Honda", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Beyonce Knowles", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a very crafty family.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very strong family.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I need to work to support my family.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love seeing my family.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "James Hetfield", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball life is a tough life on the family.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I work six months and get three or four with the family.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Nielsen", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bunton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always known I wanted a family.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Martin", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Monckton", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "family" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Andy Warhol made fame more famous.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be successful, not famous.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Gervais", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.", "AUTHOR": "Don Johnson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.", "AUTHOR": "David Beckham", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kournikova", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Owens", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen Dowd", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Accius", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.", "AUTHOR": "Wynonna Judd", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Gibb", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.", "AUTHOR": "Aidan Quinn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.", "AUTHOR": "Sinead O'Connor", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.", "AUTHOR": "Bill O'Reilly", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.", "AUTHOR": "James Carville", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Bening", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be famous everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.", "AUTHOR": "America Ferrera", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Carter", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Noomi Rapace", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.", "AUTHOR": "Anderson Cooper", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!", "AUTHOR": "Agnetha Faltskog", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I will either be famous or infamous.", "AUTHOR": "Otto Dix", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Mathis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.", "AUTHOR": "Panayiotis Zavos", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more interested in being good than being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being famous. It's almost like being white.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.", "AUTHOR": "Ilka Chase", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Mathis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never pursued being 'famous.'", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There is this power that comes with being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My hair was famous before I was.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Adie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm as famous as I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.", "AUTHOR": "Kurtis Blow", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crumb", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Mochrie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean I was famous for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.", "AUTHOR": "Neko Case", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I got the famous Oprah hug!", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no desire to be famous I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Brand", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Brand", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the man that made wrestling famous.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hughes", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being famous - it's phenomenal.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Cushing", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Colbert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.", "AUTHOR": "Yves Saint Laurent", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.", "AUTHOR": "Zakk Wylde", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Cabot", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Moran", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Rockwell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really consider myself to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was obsessed with being rich and famous.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.", "AUTHOR": "Kylie Minogue", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I literally was famous before I knew my own name.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.", "AUTHOR": "Ruud van Nistelrooy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I married a pretty famous girl, and when we drive through town there's usually a car following us, when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there's six guys waiting for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Pietersen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia De Havilland", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Brown", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Landau", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.", "AUTHOR": "David Lee Roth", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Taraji P. Henson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Farrell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Curtis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.", "AUTHOR": "George Matthew Adams", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Hoult", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Stern", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you're famous you can't go back.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Morrison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "To be famous and broke is hard.", "AUTHOR": "David Spade", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Willis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Donahue", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel famous.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The F-word is 'famous,' the C-word is 'celebrity' and S-word is 'star,' in my book. The other three words are fine - you can say those. But 'famous,' 'celebrity' and 'star,' I think, are misused.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.", "AUTHOR": "Don Johnson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't become a chef to become famous.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ripert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Schiffer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Golden", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Silverstone", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Jones", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you're famous before you're good.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!", "AUTHOR": "Brett Somers", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Daniels", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.", "AUTHOR": "Freida Pinto", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a bit jealous. Until two days ago someone told me I am the most famous Korean in the world.", "AUTHOR": "PSY", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.", "AUTHOR": "John McCain", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.", "AUTHOR": "David Oyelowo", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.", "AUTHOR": "Bill James", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hunter", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Jack Osbourne", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Danko", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Weiner", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.", "AUTHOR": "Geri Halliwell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Dempsey", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'", "AUTHOR": "David Zucker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bolton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.", "AUTHOR": "Radha Mitchell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Elfman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Manilow", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Sizemore", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Sorvino", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clooney", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.", "AUTHOR": "David Gest", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Williams", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't feel the need to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Alba", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Alba", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Carrere", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Carmelo Anthony", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriela Sabatini", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Anderson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hampton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Hall", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.", "AUTHOR": "Elliott Erwitt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was famous from birth.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fonda", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.", "AUTHOR": "Nat King Cole", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Lessig", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Haden Church", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Burstyn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not like being famous. I like being normal.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Bynes", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not my goal to be a famous actor.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.", "AUTHOR": "Valentino Rossi", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Brown", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.", "AUTHOR": "Don Henley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be in 'Glee,' but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.", "AUTHOR": "Carey Mulligan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Lennon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Schiavelli", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Fischer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It was never about winning medals or being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I can never really enjoy being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Utada Hikaru", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Black", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.", "AUTHOR": "James Purefoy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Dickinson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.", "AUTHOR": "Saffron Burrows", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I became famous almost before I had a craft.", "AUTHOR": "Farrah Fawcett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Westwick", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.", "AUTHOR": "James Ellroy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Clary", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Capaldi", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Bonaduce", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.", "AUTHOR": "Izabella Scorupco", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Green", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Tonioli", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Gilley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.", "AUTHOR": "David Carradine", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Oldfield", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hay", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hay", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like the idea of famous people.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Hersh", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Garcia", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.", "AUTHOR": "Penn Jillette", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!", "AUTHOR": "Alan Vega", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Spillane", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.", "AUTHOR": "Norman O. Brown", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Newman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Holmes", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Parker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Masur", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in a karaoke video in 1991, for a song called 'Sukiyaki,' which is a very famous Japanese song, and I've actually heard from people that they've been in bars in Asia where they've seen me come up in the 'Sukiyaki' video that they play behind you. I'm in that. I'm in a karaoke video.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think Jesus was famous and also in a lot of trouble because he always chose people over sort of established procedures.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.", "AUTHOR": "Oksana Baiul", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Scott", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Schon", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.", "AUTHOR": "George Thorogood", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Brickell", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Northam", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!", "AUTHOR": "Christine Lahti", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lou Retton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.", "AUTHOR": "O. J. Simpson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Ricki Lake", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.", "AUTHOR": "David McCallum", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Griffiths", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Burns", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.", "AUTHOR": "Noomi Rapace", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Armatrading", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Furlong", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Grenier", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has people tremble in his presence.", "AUTHOR": "Emir Kusturica", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to be rich and famous.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Malkmus", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Lee", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.", "AUTHOR": "Cee Lo Green", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Eberhard Weber", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Rush", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Cunningham", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Thomas", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Brittany", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.", "AUTHOR": "Louie Anderson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Winter", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Church", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Church", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.", "AUTHOR": "Evangeline Lilly", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't get into skating to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Heiden", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Heiden", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Tila Tequila", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Ernst", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Fox", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Wilson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.", "AUTHOR": "Will Arnett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.", "AUTHOR": "Annni-Frid Lyngstad", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.", "AUTHOR": "Paz de la Huerta", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Rea", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Martinez", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Jeff Walker", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.", "AUTHOR": "Wale", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.", "AUTHOR": "Wale", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, 'Just come on up.'", "AUTHOR": "James Wood", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.", "AUTHOR": "Griffin Dunne", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Gross", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.", "AUTHOR": "Tobey Maguire", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The world's most famous and popular language is music.", "AUTHOR": "PSY", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Follet", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.", "AUTHOR": "Aubrey O'Day", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Otto", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Modine", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Coyle Bradley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In Germany I am not so famous.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Berger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.", "AUTHOR": "Junipero Serra", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'", "AUTHOR": "Heather Morris", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Allen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Knight", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Sweeney", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Cox", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?", "AUTHOR": "Sherry Stringfield", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Cox", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Zito", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Zito", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Ritts", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Guarini", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Newton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.", "AUTHOR": "James D'arcy", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.", "AUTHOR": "Robert South", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kline", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Giggs", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Carey", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Hocking", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Polley", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Yan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always somewhere to go, something to mash up, but he ain't found it yet. You never learn everything on that guitar neck.", "AUTHOR": "David Edwards", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Danziger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Lewis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Wright", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Bennett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Kroeger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.", "AUTHOR": "Franka Potente", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Strong", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bulloch", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Skarsgard", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Keener", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Lohman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Dolph Lundgren", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Suskind", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Thorne Smith", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Thompson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.", "AUTHOR": "January Jones", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Thompson Seton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Bejo", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody tells me I'm famous I say, 'I'm not.' I can't see myself as famous and I don't think I'll ever call myself famous. I definitely don't feel famous.", "AUTHOR": "Shayne Ward", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.", "AUTHOR": "William Hung", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lefty Gomez", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Samberg", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Smith", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Flynt", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.", "AUTHOR": "Cullen Hightower", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Wayans", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought about being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Wayans", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.", "AUTHOR": "James Woods", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Cutler", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Cutler", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.", "AUTHOR": "Chazz Palminteri", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Wilson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Bean Cobain", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Mumba", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'", "AUTHOR": "Sam Worthington", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Cope", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Moses Mendelssohn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moss", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Baldwin", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Snider", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lambert", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Hyland", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Black", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Kasum", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.", "AUTHOR": "Lew Wasserman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Hanna", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Kelsey Grammer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!", "AUTHOR": "Lyle Lovett", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.", "AUTHOR": "Joel McHale", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicky Hilton", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually don't feel famous.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Robinson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Plummer", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Robertson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Sullivan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Brashares", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Slater", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Pauly Shore", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Long", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Macomber", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Muir", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.", "AUTHOR": "Cass Elliot", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.", "AUTHOR": "Pola Negri", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Fogler", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Patterson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Kightlinger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.", "AUTHOR": "Terry O'Quinn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Ryan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.", "AUTHOR": "Joey McIntyre", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Joey McIntyre", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Narada Michael Walden", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Barlow", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.", "AUTHOR": "Didi Conn", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.", "AUTHOR": "Macy Gray", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm famous. That's my job.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rubin", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Theroux", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa de la Cruz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa de la Cruz", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.", "AUTHOR": "William Scott", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "They were all famous and fantastic fellows.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Scott", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lewis", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really see myself as famous.", "AUTHOR": "MyAnna Buring", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Balotelli", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Ekberg", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "My buildings are more famous than me.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Nouvel", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Harwood", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.", "AUTHOR": "Gyorgy Legeti", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.", "AUTHOR": "Bert Campaneris", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Patrick", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Levin", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.", "AUTHOR": "Tammin Sursok", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Anger", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Thomson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Hart", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.", "AUTHOR": "Marina Warner", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.", "AUTHOR": "Silvia Colloca", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!", "AUTHOR": "Lizzie Brochere", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Slate", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Johnson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar De La Hoya", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.", "AUTHOR": "Haywood Nelson", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Barzini", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.", "AUTHOR": "Francis I", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Collen", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Biya", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.", "AUTHOR": "Rodger Ward", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.", "AUTHOR": "Simeon Strunsky", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.", "AUTHOR": "Meredith Baxter", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Shaw", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Banks", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Korda", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Carroll", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Grey", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.", "AUTHOR": "Mae Whitman", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Madekwe", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.", "AUTHOR": "Sirhan Sirhan", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.", "AUTHOR": "Slobodan Milosevic", "GENRE": "famous" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Parks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "True nobility is exempt from fear.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear makes us feel our humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many victories worse than a defeat.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He that hopes no good fears no ill.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To him who is in fear everything rustles.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Francis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fear of being boring.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you fear and fear disappears.", "AUTHOR": "David Joseph Schwartz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Crosby", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Daniel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Flores", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We fear the thing we want the most.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Ferguson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Koestler", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Wamp", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Thompson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Rogers", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.", "AUTHOR": "Dustin Hoffman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The mark of fear is not easily removed.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Gaines", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Johnson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is excitement without breath.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Heller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Rush", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Beaumarchais", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.", "AUTHOR": "Nadine Gordimer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.", "AUTHOR": "David Joseph Schwartz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Brock", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.", "AUTHOR": "Olive Schreiner", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.", "AUTHOR": "Aulus Persius Flaccus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.", "AUTHOR": "Etty Hillesum", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Butler Hathaway", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Kushner", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.", "AUTHOR": "Hale White", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Jones", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In time we hate that which we often fear.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear has its use but cowardice has none.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the mother of morality.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is stupid. So are regrets.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People living deeply have no fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Haniel Long", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing we fear we bring to pass.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear clogs faith liberates.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is knowing what not to fear.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the foundation of most governments.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear follows crime and is its punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the passion of slaves.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I will show you fear in a handful of dust.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Where fear is, happiness is not.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Layton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who own much have much to fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Browne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the fear of comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.", "AUTHOR": "Isoroku Yamamoto", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the contemptible fear contempt.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durst", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is exciting for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bronson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.", "AUTHOR": "Chauncey Depew", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.", "AUTHOR": "Louis E. Boone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Karl A. Menninger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Mojo Nixon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I fear most is fear.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Nightingale", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Charles Swinburne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Scalded cats fear even cold water.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Realists do not fear the results of their study.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To good and true love fear is forever affixed.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Columbus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Comaneci", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Chilton Pearce", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Men! The only animal in the world to fear.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Shain", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not fear mistakes. There are none.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Davis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.", "AUTHOR": "George Sewell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "While there's life, there's fear.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas John Watson, Sr.", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Erik H. Erikson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death comes from limited awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When desire dies, fear is born.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Busey", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ward Howe", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.", "AUTHOR": "Kathie Lee Gifford", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Burns", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.", "AUTHOR": "George Matthew Adams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us banish fear.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When a match has equal partners then I fear not.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Excessive fear is always powerless.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Yousef Munayyer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Dare to be honest and fear no labor.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burns", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The strongest passion is fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Williams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't fear change - embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.", "AUTHOR": "Titus Livius", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Ivo Andric", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.", "AUTHOR": "Madame de Stael", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Gable", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Anderson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.", "AUTHOR": "T. E. Lawrence", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the foundation of safety.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear God and work hard.", "AUTHOR": "David Livingstone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Fulton Oursler", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Kelleher", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.", "AUTHOR": "Vannevar Bush", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Edward P. Morgan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Ullman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Eisenstaedt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the mother of foresight.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He who doesn't fear death dies only once.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Falcone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.", "AUTHOR": "Saadi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Jonson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.", "AUTHOR": "David Ben-Gurion", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We must travel in the direction of our fear.", "AUTHOR": "John Berryman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Buble", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear attracts attack.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Catherine Bateson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Paley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.", "AUTHOR": "James Stephens", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Aragon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Tad Williams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene O'Neill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Barton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "God helps those who fear Him.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.", "AUTHOR": "Pliny the Elder", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Gutierrez", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ivo Andric", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In the ring, I never really knew fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rocky Marciano", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn French", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Kuhn", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Green", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Lars von Trier", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Lemmon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Brust", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!", "AUTHOR": "Camille Pissarro", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Vita Sackville-West", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Jameson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wood", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia C. Andrews", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to do something I fear.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Parks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Giordano Bruno", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Dee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Patterson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Arsenio Hall", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Sachs", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let them hate so long as they fear.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Accius", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Gaye", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Thomson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Less base the fear of death than fear of life.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Bob Thornton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.", "AUTHOR": "Gouverneur Morris", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear controls you.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.", "AUTHOR": "John Frusciante", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is always a good motivator.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ross", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect and fear are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.", "AUTHOR": "Roald Dahl", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Perry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Whitney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Toombs", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuel Teney", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Bowden", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.", "AUTHOR": "G. Gordon Liddy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Garcia Lorca", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Caras", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have discovered fear.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.", "AUTHOR": "Olympia Dukakis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Who sows fear, reaps weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Law Montgomery", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Benda", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Tyler Moore", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is a huge thing for older people.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Sorvino", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear only God, all praises to Him.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Brown", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Trumka", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.", "AUTHOR": "Anish Kapoor", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Schumann", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.", "AUTHOR": "Bashar al-Assad", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Charles Swinburne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCarthy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.", "AUTHOR": "James K. Polk", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Blix", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Shriver", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Blume", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Blume", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Mann", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.", "AUTHOR": "David Guetta", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Shepard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Action conquers fear.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Nivio Zarlenga", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.", "AUTHOR": "G. Gordon Liddy", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fear of emotion in tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!", "AUTHOR": "Errol Morris", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Henry Hoover", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Falcon Scott", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Warne", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.", "AUTHOR": "Elinor Wylie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear created the first gods in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Caecilius Statius", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Bonds", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest fear in life is to be average.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Frohman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.", "AUTHOR": "Freida Pinto", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Walker", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.", "AUTHOR": "Cecil Beaton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.", "AUTHOR": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.", "AUTHOR": "Jonny Wilkinson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "War is fear cloaked in courage.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Joel Osment", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo Armstrong", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Gross", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Godin", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cumming", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My only fear is the unknown.", "AUTHOR": "David Blaine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Devi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Shalom Harlow", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Beaumont", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.", "AUTHOR": "Sade Adu", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Farmer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Hume", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All that over-reaction comes from fear and government - bad combination.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Horowitz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Trout", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Horowitz", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Swift", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Stanton", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Sugar Ray Leonard", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Ralph Augustine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Freeman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Albert", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you fear most and you control fear.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hopkins", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.", "AUTHOR": "George Weinberg", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Hart", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Riseborough", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest fear: repetition.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to change... is to let go of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanne Cash", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Cochran", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Simon", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.", "AUTHOR": "Rickie Lee Jones", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Holder", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Pratt", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Snead", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Mara", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work it's about not having enough money.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Giamatti", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Travaglia", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Claudel", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Hoult", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "fear" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Inflation is taxation without legislation.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the having, it's the getting.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "All money is a matter of belief.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Sachs", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Stephen", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.", "AUTHOR": "Greer Garson", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Delors", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I made my money by selling too soon.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty is unnecessary.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Sachs", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Cook", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.", "AUTHOR": "David Ricardo", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.", "AUTHOR": "David Ricardo", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.", "AUTHOR": "E. F. Schumacher", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Marshall", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Marshall", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The economy is a very sensitive organism.", "AUTHOR": "Hjalmar Schacht", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the best rule of commerce.", "AUTHOR": "William Petty", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carper", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.", "AUTHOR": "Merton Miller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.", "AUTHOR": "Merton Miller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Fisher", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich List", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Handler", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Feldon", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The job of the Central Bank is to worry.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Rivlin", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.", "AUTHOR": "George Reisman", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Cruz Smith", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander John Ellis", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Finance, like time, devours its own children.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "My adversary is the world of finance.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Thompson", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Geithner", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Moseley Braun", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Moseley Braun", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Geithner", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Kumar", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Yahoo Serious", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.", "AUTHOR": "Yahoo Serious", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Ebbers", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.", "AUTHOR": "Robert McChesney", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.", "AUTHOR": "Robert McChesney", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.", "AUTHOR": "Renny Harlin", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.", "AUTHOR": "Blair Underwood", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by Wall Street and the U.S. government of so-called Sharia-Compliant Finance. Indeed, this country's taxpayers now own the largest purveyor of sharia-compliant insurance products in the world: AIG.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gaffney", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfrid Laurier", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Beresford", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.", "AUTHOR": "James Chanos", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Spheeris", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Alan Sekulow", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I only make movies to finance my fishing'.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Marvin", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Leach", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.", "AUTHOR": "William Greider", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.", "AUTHOR": "William Greider", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.", "AUTHOR": "David Dinkins", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.", "AUTHOR": "Olympia Snowe", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.", "AUTHOR": "Sherrod Brown", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.", "AUTHOR": "John Rawls", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.", "AUTHOR": "Gray Davis", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hightower", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Schauble", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.", "AUTHOR": "James L. Buckley", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Daschle", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Lo", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.", "AUTHOR": "Merton Miller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.", "AUTHOR": "Merton Miller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.", "AUTHOR": "Merton Miller", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.", "AUTHOR": "Marcy Kaptur", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Fielding", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Kagan", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Richardson", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Peer Steinbruck", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Barak", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.", "AUTHOR": "John Hurt", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Rydell", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Israel", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.", "AUTHOR": "Mathias Rust", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nelson", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Khodorkovsky", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.", "AUTHOR": "Rodrigo Rato", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Brazile", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Collins", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Johnson", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Schuyler", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.", "AUTHOR": "Hassanal Bolkiah", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.", "AUTHOR": "Ne-Yo", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.", "AUTHOR": "Bille August", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.", "AUTHOR": "Mariano Rajoy", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Card", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower that a ten handicap on my golf game I'd be thrilled.", "AUTHOR": "Paul M. Glaser", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Tobias", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Mulyani Indrawati", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Armitage", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.", "AUTHOR": "John Patrick", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.", "AUTHOR": "Pete McCloskey", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand that finance can be very complex.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Harrington", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances the use of Tax Incremental Finance and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Sawford", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeroen Dijsselbloem", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.", "AUTHOR": "Alistair Darling", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "It starts with campaign finance reform.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Space", "GENRE": "finance" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The first wealth is health.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Haney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dudley White", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Vinoba Bhave", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The human body is the best picture of the human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise is labor without weariness.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Perry", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Practice puts brains in your muscles.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Snead", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Fleming", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Sheehan", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Muscles come and go flab lasts.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Blanchard", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tunney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Alexis", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Blair", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.", "AUTHOR": "Jurgen Klinsmann", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Brock Yates", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Cuccurullo", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness lies first of all in health.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Cohen", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "You gotta have a body.", "AUTHOR": "Jayne Mansfield", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Otto", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Fisher", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Nelson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Lomu", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Edgerton", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Oakley", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tunney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Bull", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The only weights I lift are my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Newton-John", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Le Saux", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to swim for miles I could just go back and forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The groundwork of all happiness is health.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I like exercise. I like a healthy body.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Gray", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Thorne Smith", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shilton", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.", "AUTHOR": "Grete Waitz", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Irving", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.", "AUTHOR": "Viggo Mortensen", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.", "AUTHOR": "Daniela Pestova", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Louise", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Atlas", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Dixon", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Decker", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Elaine MacDonald", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Simmons", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Resting for me is fitness training.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gascoigne", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "With fitness, I do Bikrams hot yoga. The gym that I have in my building is amazing. I love to do cardio and weights there.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "They both go together you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Strachan", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Bruno", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Haney", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it's extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your training, so cross training will help you to avoid injury when you are dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Cross", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Daley", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.", "AUTHOR": "William Graham Sumner", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Lendl", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Redknapp", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.", "AUTHOR": "Cobi Jones", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Duhamel", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!", "AUTHOR": "Candice Swanepoel", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.", "AUTHOR": "Rafer Johnson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Pistorius", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.", "AUTHOR": "Andriy Shevchenko", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Cuccurullo", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Ann Inaba", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.", "AUTHOR": "Gregor Mendel", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.", "AUTHOR": "David Ginola", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Le Saux", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pierce", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Franka Potente", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.", "AUTHOR": "E. T. Bell", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.", "AUTHOR": "Tim DeKay", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shilton", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Mansell", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gough", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gough", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.", "AUTHOR": "Grete Waitz", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Inouye", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.", "AUTHOR": "Rafer Johnson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now!", "AUTHOR": "Andriy Shevchenko", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Taylor", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.", "AUTHOR": "Heather O'Reilly", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Hoebel", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Knight", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Johnson", "GENRE": "fitness" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware the hobby that eats.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no sincerer love than the love of food.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't eat anything green.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Never order food in excess of your body weight.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "One should eat to live, not live to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to America, bring your own food.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of fast food is a mallard.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dangerous food is wedding cake.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dodd", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If food were free, why work?", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Thomson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I could talk food all day. I love good food.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is our common ground, a universal experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Beard", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Cohen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food should be fun.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Catherine Bateson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food simply isn't important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Paul", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Brickell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say centered food equals centered behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hill", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating without conversation is only stoking.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Carlton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Miss Child is never bashful with butter.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Donahue", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Bellucci", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Love Hewitt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.", "AUTHOR": "Alma Guillermoprieto", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Leach", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Lucci", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.", "AUTHOR": "M. F. K. Fisher", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Schneider", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Karrie Webb", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.", "AUTHOR": "Finley Peter Dunne", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Italy will always have the best food.", "AUTHOR": "Diane von Furstenberg", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Wayans", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Barnard", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.", "AUTHOR": "M. F. K. Fisher", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buchanan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Miller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.", "AUTHOR": "John Corry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lelyveld", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If music be the food of love, play on.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.", "AUTHOR": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is an important part of a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Cameron", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula Andress", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Leach", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Syd Barrett", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.", "AUTHOR": "George Mikes", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Vreeland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.", "AUTHOR": "Lucretius", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.", "AUTHOR": "John Salazar", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a junk food person, still am.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.", "AUTHOR": "Al Sharpton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Holland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Health food makes me sick.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.", "AUTHOR": "Ornette Coleman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.", "AUTHOR": "Giuseppe Garibaldi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a little bummed out when there is too much fancy stuff going on and it doesn't resemble the original dish at all.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Collins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Coburn", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I need my food to keep my energy up, so I can't really diet.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Tuchman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love food.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Junk food drags you down.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My Food Network shows, 'Emeril Live' and 'Essence of Emeril,' are not in production right now, but I wouldn't say that I'm necessarily leaving Food Network. I have a lot of television still in me. I enjoy teaching people, so it's just a matter of time before I do something new.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Love food and I love to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Cuccurullo", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into mellow dates with really good food.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Mazar", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitudes toward food have completely changed.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I hid myself in food.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Palin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Blagojevich", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not allow watching food to replace making food.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love food and I love my curves.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like a food/lifestyle show. We're not sure what that is yet. I want to be able to share what I do and how I raise my family. I feel like I have a story to tell. I enjoy talking and listening, sharing ideas and sharing advice.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about food all the time. It's my passion it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more value for their money - not in larger portions but more in terms of healthier, fresh, farm-to-table dishes with a nice presentation.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?", "AUTHOR": "Nikita Khrushchev", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When my work gets crazy, I make sure to always have vitamins, water and proper food with me. That has helped me to lose 33 pounds.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment - they don't have to love everything, but they do have to try it.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I want to know that I don't have to take an acting job for two or three years if I don't want to and that I'll still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.", "AUTHOR": "Klaus Kinski", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love food, I love eating.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Gilman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jack", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Stipe", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Delia Smith", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Renfro", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Tyler Moore", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Masaharu Morimoto", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love spicy food.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Light", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Rose", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's quite hard to put food in your mouth!", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on 'Top Chef.'", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't crave junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Appleton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "High-quality food is better for your health.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Garr", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Mizrahi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Mizrahi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really into gourmet food I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm obsessed with food!", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Vergara", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Kapranos", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.", "AUTHOR": "Treat Williams", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!", "AUTHOR": "Edie Brickell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.", "AUTHOR": "Todd English", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Gabor", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is not your best friend or enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.", "AUTHOR": "John Harvey Kellogg", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Campbell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.", "AUTHOR": "Lakhdar Brahimi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Queuing tips for fans: wrap up and bring food!", "AUTHOR": "Niall Horan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Adams", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Stipe", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different cheeses and it's high in fat. It's real food. That's what's more important.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel around and hear from so many kids. Their parents say they were always very picky but they watch the show and they want to try stuff. The show is entertainment, but I think it has done so much for the public perception of what food can be.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Anderson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Polizzi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the secret to good food.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Like baseball, food will never go out of style we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manchin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!", "AUTHOR": "John Piper", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I say: If you don't know how to cook, I'm sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, 'Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you?'", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Pearson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Gold", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.", "AUTHOR": "Susan George", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a Luddite, but I'm outside more than I'm on my computer. We have a micro-farm - it's a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I normally don't eat junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Harrison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I buy food and gasoline - that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.", "AUTHOR": "Fuzzy Zoeller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.", "AUTHOR": "Anish Kapoor", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Hoult", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Sanchez", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I get way too much happiness from good food.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.", "AUTHOR": "Mariel Hemingway", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Mills", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a fascination with food.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Mills", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.", "AUTHOR": "Frank McCourt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.", "AUTHOR": "Flavor Flav", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Kapranos", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Kapranos", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "They advertise on the radio for food stamps!", "AUTHOR": "Bill O'Reilly", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Epstein", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I've been pregnant, I've lost my taste for fast food. I used to be the biggest McDonald's junkie and now I don't like it anymore. I used to be the biggest fast-food connoisseur, and now I've really lost my taste for it.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Langella", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Oh", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.", "AUTHOR": "Rocco DiSpirito", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an amazing relationship with food.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Meghan O'Rourke", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Sabol", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Stone", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Offerman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ripert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There is great food in Vegas.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ripert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't follow the food trends.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ripert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Burrell", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Ladd", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to address diet and physical activity factors in order to prevent chronic diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lehrer", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.", "AUTHOR": "Sadie Frost", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.", "AUTHOR": "John Owen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Chaplin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Lochte", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Fishman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.", "AUTHOR": "Marcy Kaptur", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.", "AUTHOR": "Katarina Witt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Jones", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Berkley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Andres Puerta", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Dujardin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Cavallari", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Morrison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Selye", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff!", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Ushkowitz", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?", "AUTHOR": "Sade Adu", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Liotta", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I had absolutely no idea how I had ballooned during my pregnancy. All I thought about was eating plenty of food to keep my baby healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lang", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.", "AUTHOR": "L. Neil Smith", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Lay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Lay", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Chestnut", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Bonner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We had the best food any battlefield ever had.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Malthus", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "This president has said this has to be a priority for our nation, protecting our food supply from terrorist acts, so he continues to provide the funding that is necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.", "AUTHOR": "Nana Mouskouri", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldo Rivera", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.", "AUTHOR": "David Ricardo", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.", "AUTHOR": "David Ricardo", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.", "AUTHOR": "L'Wren Scott", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger they make the best fast food hamburgers around.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Guttenberg", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Bertinelli", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Bertinelli", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Bertinelli", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Riley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Near", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Bradley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Sizemore", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I swear I want to be a food model.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.", "AUTHOR": "Shmuel Y. Agnon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Greene", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Wayne Callies", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What's my favourite food? One you order out.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Breslin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Baker", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmar Gabriel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Daly", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Celler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Quivers", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Walton", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.", "AUTHOR": "Big Boi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Richardson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Dwayne Andreas", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Akin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.", "AUTHOR": "Anne McCaffrey", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.", "AUTHOR": "Aarti Sequeira", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Burstyn", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You can heal your body with food.", "AUTHOR": "Stacy Keibler", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cantalupo", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Gallacher", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Cameron", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Henley", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.", "AUTHOR": "Erich von Stroheim", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Jason Leigh", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like salads: I like the strong food.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ringwald", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think for me, food was a way for me to deal with emotional trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.", "AUTHOR": "W. L. George", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't make jokes about food.", "AUTHOR": "David Lean", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.", "AUTHOR": "Henry L. Stimson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Dutt", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Chiu", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!", "AUTHOR": "Candice Swanepoel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Dodson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.", "AUTHOR": "John Prescott", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.", "AUTHOR": "John Warner", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always preferred food be on the blander side.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food compulsion isn't a character disorder it's a chemical disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Gaines", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.", "AUTHOR": "Sela Ward", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I adore food and always have.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Asher", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Isaacs", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Goodlatte", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Patterson", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.", "AUTHOR": "Wale", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Westwick", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.", "AUTHOR": "Wale", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Clary", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Farr", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Food in Chicago is the best.", "AUTHOR": "Lee DeWyze", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.", "AUTHOR": "Gaspard Ulliel", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Autry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.", "AUTHOR": "Al Lewis", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Sims", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Lee", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Edmonds", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.", "AUTHOR": "Nellie Bly", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!", "AUTHOR": "James Payn", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Fisher", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.", "AUTHOR": "Jackee Harry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Lemieux", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Bonaduce", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelton Reed", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Walsh", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food!", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, through the influence of 'grande cuisine,' has become a bit lighter. And we are beginning to discover the original flavors of our produce.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Franti", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Cuccurullo", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Eggert", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Follett", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Mowry", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Trotter", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Penn State is a leader in food science.", "AUTHOR": "Don Sherwood", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Freston", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Noth", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Freston", "GENRE": "food" }, { "QUOTE": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah More", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.", "AUTHOR": "Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "To err is human to forgive, divine.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgotten is forgiven.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fripp", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness means letting go of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "One forgives to the degree that one loves.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "To be social is to be forgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Somers", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Without forgiveness, there's no future.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Duer Miller", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "God will forgive me. It's his job.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ausonius", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.", "AUTHOR": "Janine Turner", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an adventure in forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Hopper", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead the living have no right to forget.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Herzog", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand is to forgive, even oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Chase", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.", "AUTHOR": "Olin Miller", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine the Great", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Assagioli", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine L'Engle", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Qadeer Khan", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I find forgiveness to be really healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Janine Turner", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer O'Neill", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Thompson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Albert", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.", "AUTHOR": "Craig T. Nelson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Chesnut", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Bergamin", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ray Cyrus", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Baez", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "John Rowland", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility and I do.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Grace", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer O'Neill", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Dar Williams", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no forgiveness in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ugo Betti", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.", "AUTHOR": "Jayson Blair", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Foxx", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Tergesen", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Clary", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Cope", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.", "AUTHOR": "William P. Leahy", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "William Brewster", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.", "AUTHOR": "Norm Dicks", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rainy", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Monk Kidd", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.", "AUTHOR": "Louis-Ferdinand Celine", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.", "AUTHOR": "John Rowland", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "William P. Young", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Mackenzie Phillips", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph J. Ellis", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Wechsler", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!", "AUTHOR": "Susan Smith", "GENRE": "forgiveness" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes the true, where he is free to do what he ought.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the only law which genius knows.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is from within.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom rings where opinions clash.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.", "AUTHOR": "William Lloyd Garrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Dayan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Thor", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the recognition of necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Engels", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Cronkite", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Evans Hughes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.", "AUTHOR": "Warren E. Burger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I need this wild life, this freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Zane Grey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Lott", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Frankfurter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.", "AUTHOR": "Robert McNamara", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald MacLeish", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings crave freedom at their core.", "AUTHOR": "John Ensign", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Silvio Berlusconi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Dole", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The best road to progress is freedom's road.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom lies in being bold.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Britten", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibility is the price of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only certain freedom's in departure.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as part freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Thor", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Tambo", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Sands", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilien Robespierre", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.", "AUTHOR": "Kwame Nkrumah", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the right to live as we wish.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rahner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Christian Andersen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.", "AUTHOR": "Yasser Arafat", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Adie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Dent", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.", "AUTHOR": "Ma Jian", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had crossed the line. I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Huber", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Olof Palme", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.", "AUTHOR": "A. Philip Randolph", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Christian Anderson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmed Ali", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Murphy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Berton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Peltier", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "People demand freedom only when they have no power.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is control in your own life.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom can occur only through education.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the daughter of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Knopfler", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.", "AUTHOR": "Kemal Ataturk", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Moyers", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rich", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.", "AUTHOR": "Ramana Maharshi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Kristel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.", "AUTHOR": "Boyd Rice", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.", "AUTHOR": "Leo McKern", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "America, to me, is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Malcom X", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The precondition to freedom is security.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Beers", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Yeltsin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.", "AUTHOR": "Shel Silverstein", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Roald Dahl", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Duer Miller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Haggard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Sands", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadette Devlin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs it was about sexual freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.", "AUTHOR": "David Riesman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.", "AUTHOR": "David Allan Coe", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Simone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Johnson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Dent", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Bunuel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Maron", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Zell Miller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Julia Cooper", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Bird Johnson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Boortz", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Kropotkin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmar Gabriel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanne Cash", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Abrams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Shelton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is such a gift.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The American dream is about freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Alinsky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy. The problem comes when healthy criticism is replaced with more destructive intimidation and sanctions.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our forefathers got it they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.", "AUTHOR": "James Larkin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sparks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Rosabeth Moss Kanter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Dyson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife needs her freedom just like me.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of art is a scream of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Christo", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.", "AUTHOR": "Richard G. Scott", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.", "AUTHOR": "William Falconer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.", "AUTHOR": "Yahya Jammeh", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Chabrol", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.", "AUTHOR": "Corliss Lamont", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.", "AUTHOR": "Corliss Lamont", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Popper", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Milos Forman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I tasted freedom and I really liked it.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Lynott", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Turgenev", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Stanley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Thomas", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Koenig", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.", "AUTHOR": "George Pataki", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Sachs", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo Antonioni", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Black", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Gates", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Morial", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!", "AUTHOR": "Mother Jones", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Meiklejohn", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Ford", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Jasper Johns", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Wilder Lane", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Etheridge", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dean Foster", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Vargas Llosa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Wamp", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Patten", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.", "AUTHOR": "L. Neil Smith", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Richards", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.", "AUTHOR": "Demosthenes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nelson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Wylie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.", "AUTHOR": "Vince McMahon", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dodd", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Horst Koehler", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Kristofferson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Trumka", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Trumka", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Anish Kapoor", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Wallace", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Tucholsky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Aoun", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Twitchell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.", "AUTHOR": "John Ralston Saul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The abortion license has not brought freedom and security to women. Rather, it has ushered in a new era of irresponsibility toward women and children, one that now begins before birth.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Parks", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Stone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.", "AUTHOR": "James Truslow Adams", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Molko", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Assange", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Adie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.", "AUTHOR": "Powell Clayton", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Baumgartner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wiles", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Mount", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Jontel Pimentel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Capa", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Lester Maddox", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'", "AUTHOR": "Ernestine Rose", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Keyes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.", "AUTHOR": "Audie Murphy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our work is a scream of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Christo", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.", "AUTHOR": "Kylie Minogue", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Cardozo", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Lajos Kossuth", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Scott", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Freida Pinto", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Winwood", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Ferguson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Crow", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Taft", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Titus Livius", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Herzl", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Keller", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Devi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Moira Kelly", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.", "AUTHOR": "Emmylou Harris", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe a part of me recognized how right the improvising spirit of jazz is. Not the sounds, but the freedom to work with musicians who work that way. It felt very natural to me, but I think there's a way to do it without it being a jazz record.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Harper", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Lessig", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.", "AUTHOR": "Juliana Hatfield", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Foster Bennett", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Burgess", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Landau", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemies of freedom will not prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Bastiat", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Stone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Finley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Charles Carey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Pearce", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Charles Carey", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Morsi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Brent Scowcroft", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Renault", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.", "AUTHOR": "Karel Capek", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul Gaultier", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Herer", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Maurice de Talleyrand", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Versace", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Money equals freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Walden", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ackerman", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Sim", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Scheider", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Steinberg", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Castellaneta", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Abbas", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.", "AUTHOR": "John Linder", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Perle", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander, doing my own thing under the radar, but I didn't get in bad, bad trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Giamatti", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Giuliani", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.", "AUTHOR": "John Ralston Saul", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Taft", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.", "AUTHOR": "John Ashcroft", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.", "AUTHOR": "DeForest Soaries", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?", "AUTHOR": "Matt Drudge", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.", "AUTHOR": "Tiffeny Milbrett", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Harris Jones", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Dale Owen", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Gilroy", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jackson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Jackson", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.", "AUTHOR": "Flavor Flav", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Amis", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Joss Stone", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.", "AUTHOR": "Benicio Del Toro", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Maria Aznar", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Baldwin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing I believe in is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Evers", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.", "AUTHOR": "Delphine de Girardin", "GENRE": "freedom" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Nouwen", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hall", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Brault", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Nouwen", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True friends stab you in the front.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend to all is a friend to none.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.", "AUTHOR": "Bil Keane", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to have a friend is to be one.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The language of friendship is not words but meanings.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Duer Miller", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "He who hath many friends hath none.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Lee Runbeck", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Winchell", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.", "AUTHOR": "Giotto di Bondone", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship and money: oil and water.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have one true friend you have more than your share.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Holliday", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is one mind in two bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Mencius", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a long time to grow an old friend.", "AUTHOR": "John Leonard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend is, as it were, a second self.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Alexander Eastman", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.", "AUTHOR": "King Solomon", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Orne Jewett", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Kennedy", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.", "AUTHOR": "Francesco Guicciardini", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love demands infinitely less than friendship.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Ludwig", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need to do to be my friend is like me.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are born, not made.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Pepys", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time to make friends is before you need them.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Barrymore", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a friendship set to music.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "All lasting business is built on friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is essentially a partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Basil", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Burton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.", "AUTHOR": "David Storey", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is Love without his wings!", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa See", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Opposition is true friendship.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southey", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The friendship that can cease has never been real.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.", "AUTHOR": "Theophile Gautier", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship has its illusions no less than love.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.", "AUTHOR": "Zhang Ziyi", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a sheltering tree.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Value your friendship. Value your relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.", "AUTHOR": "Austin O'Malley", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bunton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Shriver", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.", "AUTHOR": "Seneca", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.", "AUTHOR": "James Whistler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and friendship exclude each other.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.", "AUTHOR": "Jena Malone", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Peguy", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Pietro Aretino", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Petrarch", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Edgerton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.", "AUTHOR": "Clifton Paul Fadiman", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.", "AUTHOR": "James F. Byrnes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Morgan", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Eustace Budgell", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Sylva", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Evelyn", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine Birrell", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ramos-Horta", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Riding", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clayton", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Freud", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Came but for friendship, and took away love.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.", "AUTHOR": "Eustace Budgell", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Blair", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Branagh", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.", "AUTHOR": "Brooks Adams", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Swetchine", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.", "AUTHOR": "John Frusciante", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.", "AUTHOR": "William Wycherley", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Blood", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lehrer", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Jacob", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Berkley", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Rogers", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Chicho", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.", "AUTHOR": "Namie Amuro", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.", "AUTHOR": "Hayao Miyazaki", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carl Black", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.", "AUTHOR": "Armistead Maupin", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Jintao", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Finn", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cavendish", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.", "AUTHOR": "Randy West", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.", "AUTHOR": "James F. Byrnes", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Kempthorne", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.", "AUTHOR": "Eve Arnold", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Lucan", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Van Zandt", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Li Peng", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harrison", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Beals", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.", "AUTHOR": "Lincoln Chafee", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very close friendship with the skaters.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Heiden", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksander Kwasniewski", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Machado", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Arnold", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Arpey", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lugar", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Marchant", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Bean", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Marion Crawford", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Massa", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.", "AUTHOR": "Veronica Roth", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.", "AUTHOR": "Nahum Tate", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.", "AUTHOR": "August Strindberg", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Stefanie Powers", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Chicho", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Chicho", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Chicho", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.", "AUTHOR": "Ali A. Saleh", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Mayr", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Lucas", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "John Woo", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Murray", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Hugh Munro", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Knight", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Bear", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Harding", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayall", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Tubbs Jones", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Black Kettle", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Antonio Samaranch", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Antonio Samaranch", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Walter Bates", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Fouts", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.", "AUTHOR": "John Tyler", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.", "AUTHOR": "Alban Berg", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Haney", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.", "AUTHOR": "Atifete Jahjaga", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.", "AUTHOR": "Cornelia Otis Skinner", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.", "AUTHOR": "Galina Vishnevskaya", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.", "AUTHOR": "Fawn M. Brodie", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Robson Belmont", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Garza", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Berry", "GENRE": "friendship" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Hackett", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Weather forecast for tonight: dark.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All generalizations are false, including this one.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Wood", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'", "AUTHOR": "Claude Pepper", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Berle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to live forever. So far, so good.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is hard. After all, it kills you.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Electricity is really just organized lightning.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One picture is worth 1,000 denials.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Berle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.", "AUTHOR": "Joe E. Lewis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Levant", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Never have more children than you have car windows.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.", "AUTHOR": "David Brenner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I never said most of the things I said.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What's another word for Thesaurus?", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.", "AUTHOR": "David Lee Roth", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been hurt by what I have not said.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like children - fried.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm for whatever gets you through the night.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Bunuel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Nealon", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Wagner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The superfluous, a very necessary thing.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The next time you have a thought... let it go.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are equal before fish.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My life needs editing.", "AUTHOR": "Mort Sahl", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are only as loyal as their options.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You're only as good as your last haircut.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Be obscure clearly.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Food is an important part of a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You see much more of your children once they leave home.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One man's folly is another man's wife.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I failed to make the chess team because of my height.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is chewing gum for the eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Berle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Never fight an inanimate object.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Polite conversation is rarely either.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Corddry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As I get older, I just prefer to knit.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Never floss with a stranger.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like marriage. The idea.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.", "AUTHOR": "Les Dawson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism is like one big phone company.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Bruce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.", "AUTHOR": "David Brenner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Benny", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I rant, therefore I am.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Durante", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lewis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When the sun comes up, I have morals again.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Never put a sock in a toaster.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Orbison", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had the nerve not to tip.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.", "AUTHOR": "Joe E. Lewis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Wisdom", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I can speak Esperanto like a native.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Bruce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot sing, dance or act what else would I be but a talk show host.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think serial monogamy says it all.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lewis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Dickinson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All my children inherited perfect pitch.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.", "AUTHOR": "George Lopez", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Wax", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Moran", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.", "AUTHOR": "James Brown", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes McCambridge", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rooney", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Rhea", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not funny. What I am is brave.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mean to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny old world.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.", "AUTHOR": "Lalu Prasad Yadav", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to be silly to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie Perez", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Wavy Gravy", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood's just not funny.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Liu", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'm funny.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Celia Johnson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Will Ferrell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny to be a critic.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to do a film which is funny.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was funny as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Liebman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Eric San", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a funny way.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.", "AUTHOR": "Rihanna", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.", "AUTHOR": "George M. Cohan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Short", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Simmons", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Wilson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny because it's funny.", "AUTHOR": "David Spade", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't just try to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Bil Keane", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Bob Thornton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.", "AUTHOR": "Fanny Brice", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That's part of what I am doing, is letting people see the other side of Mitt.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny is funny.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Memories are doing funny things to us.", "AUTHOR": "Milos Forman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Coen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hislop", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Brees", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carr", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny is an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Mason", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!", "AUTHOR": "Emily Giffin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.", "AUTHOR": "James Lipton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Stone", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.", "AUTHOR": "Tobias Wolff", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip Noyce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always something funny about men chasing women.", "AUTHOR": "David Spade", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how most activists are pacifists.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Nielsen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny is funny is funny.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Scarlett Johansson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what's funny to me? Attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.", "AUTHOR": "Sheena Easton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lehrer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Baker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's funny in different ways.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Seacrest", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's funny if you love them.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Crow", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very funny family.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Steve Hackett", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis Bextor", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cumming", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Norm MacDonald", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.", "AUTHOR": "Neve Campbell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Stanton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.", "AUTHOR": "Sugar Ray Leonard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.", "AUTHOR": "Keenen Ivory Wayans", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Mochrie", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be funny if you don't have good material.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Don Van Vliet", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Black", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Bonaduce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Green", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Duke", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Grint", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Stern", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Rhys Meyers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.", "AUTHOR": "Danny DeVito", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'", "AUTHOR": "Catherine O'Hara", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'", "AUTHOR": "Martin Amis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Benicio Del Toro", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn't able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on 'E.R.' That's not generally thought of as a funny show.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Livingston", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Spencer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.", "AUTHOR": "David Spade", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Gondry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Russell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Isaak", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fraser", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Stone", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Yothers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Yothers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Offerman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.", "AUTHOR": "Darren Criss", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Brownstein", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.", "AUTHOR": "David Hyde Pierce", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.", "AUTHOR": "Al Franken", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is funny what a year can do.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Shepard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Meyers", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Posey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Hazanavicius", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Liebman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Sewell", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Keegan", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my ideas just come out funny.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Ladd", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bergin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Tartt", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lehrer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.", "AUTHOR": "Stephenie Meyer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Merton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Daniels", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Lucas", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Dujardin", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Sienkiewicz", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Baker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.", "AUTHOR": "Don Bluth", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Coen", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Hill", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.", "AUTHOR": "John Badham", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.", "AUTHOR": "Nicky Hilton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I,' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Segel", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hall", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Sweeney", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Sweeney", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Stiller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Corddry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Stiller", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Abel Ferrara", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Corddry", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hunter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Navarro", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Dorff", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholson Baker", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Weiner", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Stone", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Hawkins", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Piper Perabo", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.", "AUTHOR": "Shirin Ebadi", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.", "AUTHOR": "Wanda Sykes", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Artie Lange", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.", "AUTHOR": "Wanda Sykes", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Lauren Adams", "GENRE": "funny" }, { "QUOTE": "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In this bright future you can't forget your past.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It looks like the future's really bright.", "AUTHOR": "Michael P. Anderson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future starts today, not tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Study the past, if you would divine the future.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future ain't what it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Pagnol", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing like a dream to create the future.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is no more uncertain than the present.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Murdock", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Control your own destiny or someone else will.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make predictions, especially about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Griffith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The youth is the hope of our future.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Rizal", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Grizzuti Harrison", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pickford", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I touch the future. I teach.", "AUTHOR": "Christa McAuliffe", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ward Howe", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.", "AUTHOR": "Seneca", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Jacobs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "They gave each other a smile with a future in it.", "AUTHOR": "Ring Lardner", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is always beginning now.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My future is righteousness.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to predict the future is to create it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future influences the present just as much as the past.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to school the youth to learn the future.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never plan the future by the past.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "AUTHOR": "Bil Keane", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Norris Russell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.", "AUTHOR": "Henry R. Luce", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hensley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Without forgiveness, there's no future.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My business is to prevent the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel, and between the American and Israeli people. We share common values and a commitment to a democratic future for the world, and we are both committed to a two-state solution. But that doesn't mean that we're going to agree.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kagame", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Haley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is purchased by the present.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Depression is the inability to construct a future.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution never looks to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.", "AUTHOR": "James Dobson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiles form the channels of a future tear.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.", "AUTHOR": "Sparky Anderson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Blanka Vlasic", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Dix", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Schultz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When all else is lost, the future still remains.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future will be better tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is made of the same stuff as the present.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Davis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.", "AUTHOR": "John L. Lewis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.", "AUTHOR": "Maxim Gorky", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future and eternity are two entirely different things.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Redgrave", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is the worst thing about the present.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Abernathy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Rogers", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.", "AUTHOR": "Artur Davis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Gordon Low", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.", "AUTHOR": "Eden Phillpotts", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.", "AUTHOR": "Tre Cool", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Palin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sankara", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Fulton Oursler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Turner", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Ferguson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is today.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Dent", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Herman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Reed", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Conklin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'", "AUTHOR": "Peter Lynch", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is still a future with music, because people want music.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.", "AUTHOR": "David Satcher", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.", "AUTHOR": "Fred G. Gosman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.", "AUTHOR": "David Trimble", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.", "AUTHOR": "George Pataki", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every thought we think is creating our future.", "AUTHOR": "Louise L. Hay", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Carter Beard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Thad Cochran", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dian Fossey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen Forrester", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Gillard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My future's about trying to be a better man.", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Howard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo Antonioni", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I just can't wait for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rahner", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Addams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.", "AUTHOR": "Louise J. Kaplan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't let your past hold your future hostage.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion, we are going to destroy this nation.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "One faces the future with one's past.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Victor Hansen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dundes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is a bright as the promises of God.", "AUTHOR": "Adoniram Judson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Rommel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Africa has no future.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis LeMay", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to do more action stuff, in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bishop", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.", "AUTHOR": "Leopold Von Ranke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.", "AUTHOR": "John Holt", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.", "AUTHOR": "Kalpana Chawla", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Booth", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Gerrard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. We're looking across the room at you, and we don't care about your hopes and dreams. We don't care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Keith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rounds", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Lester Bangs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Campbell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Mankiller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Cristiano Ronaldo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine Rivarol", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Freud", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.", "AUTHOR": "Anil Kapoor", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Mahler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Kenichi Fukui", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Quinet", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Chamberlain", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Starr King", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Grizzuti Harrison", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big laser believer - I really think they are the wave of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that you've talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Reiss", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every educated person is a future enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Bormann", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Patterson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future has a way of arriving unannounced.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Lakein", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfrid Laurier", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Hun Sen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.", "AUTHOR": "Ice T", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Plato", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Bond", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The best prophet of the future is the past.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?", "AUTHOR": "Rick Danko", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Forsey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when I'm going to sleep, I think, 'Oh God, my future husband is out there somewhere and I might know him, or I might not, and I wonder what he's doing and I wonder if he knows me.' I just always think that's so fascinating, that even when you were two years old, your future husband was out there somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Mankiller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Abdallah II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is more important to the future of our state than our teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Smith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?", "AUTHOR": "John Leonard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Brower", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mandrell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Bloom", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.", "AUTHOR": "Orhan Pamuk", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Versace", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Royko", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Like I always say, one doesn't know what can happen in the future, but if it were up to me to decide, I would stay at Barcelona for the rest of my career.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Messi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Benda", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Sheen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Pleasence", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smithson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Horowitz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For every minute, the future is becoming the past.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything about my politics has been about the future.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Harris", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.", "AUTHOR": "George Crumb", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Only", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.", "AUTHOR": "Zelda Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm scared of the unknown future.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.", "AUTHOR": "Charles J. Givens", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Waltari", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Beuys", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wiles", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Alexander", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Oliver", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is keeping you out of the present time.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Howard", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Kahn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Russel Wallace", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't predict the future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Seacrest", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future belongs to crowds.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.", "AUTHOR": "Roh Moo-hyun", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Hardaway", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stresemann", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.", "AUTHOR": "Gifford Pinchot", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.", "AUTHOR": "Red Auerbach", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't predict the future.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.", "AUTHOR": "Flavor Flav", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Peart", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just saying that at least for the foreseeable future there won't be any more touring.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Danzig", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Reagan", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on a search for my future ex-wife.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Tautou", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dundes", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Crist", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally find it very rewarding to be involved with classic storytelling, and sort of legendary characters.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Bean", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.", "AUTHOR": "John Cale", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not making any bets on the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Bernanke", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Landau", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Placido Domingo", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Cowell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!", "AUTHOR": "Ted Williams", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Burns", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Becker", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I'm vulnerable too and each one of us is.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Navarro", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Dalio", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Dalio", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.", "AUTHOR": "David Antin", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Barksdale", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what the future brings.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Jackson", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Kung", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford D. Simak", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Kodjoe", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Fowler", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.", "AUTHOR": "Rickie Lee Jones", "GENRE": "future" }, { "QUOTE": "He plants trees to benefit another generation.", "AUTHOR": "Caecilius Statius", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A good garden may have some weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.", "AUTHOR": "David Hobson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.", "AUTHOR": "D. Elton Trueblood", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar de la Renta", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Morecambe", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Burle Marx", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?", "AUTHOR": "Roy Rogers", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.", "AUTHOR": "George Cadbury", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "To dwell is to garden.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "All gardening is landscape painting.", "AUTHOR": "William Kent", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Smith", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardening is not a rational act.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Theroux", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Keith", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Use plants to bring life.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dudley Warner", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smithson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.", "AUTHOR": "Suzy Bogguss", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Lee Ray", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "If a tree dies, plant another in its place.", "AUTHOR": "Carolus Linnaeus", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Dogen Zenji", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.", "AUTHOR": "John Harrison", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Malone", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Garden as though you will live forever.", "AUTHOR": "William Kent", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fish", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?", "AUTHOR": "Francis Cabot Lowell", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Barragan", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I do the gardening.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Ant", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Hampshire", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Thompson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Cojocaru", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Baker", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Anderson", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Murphy", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Northam", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Miller", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Blount, Jr.", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.", "AUTHOR": "Gates McFadden", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Bean", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Steward", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.", "AUTHOR": "Juliet Mills", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.", "AUTHOR": "J. M. Roberts", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Charles", "GENRE": "gardening" }, { "QUOTE": "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When the solution is simple, God is answering.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one prays to God according to his own light.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God trust also in me.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My message is that God is a good God.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.", "AUTHOR": "Geronimo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.", "AUTHOR": "King Solomon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every creature is a word of God.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is God's crowning gift to man.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God loves to help him who strives to help himself.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God always strives together with those who strive.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, God is God because he remembers.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I only answer to two people, myself and God.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I wake up and thank God.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Neville", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is bigger than people think.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Dean", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is God's blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Prince", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Hinn", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I've said all along that God is in control.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Williams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.", "AUTHOR": "Jupiter Hammon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.", "AUTHOR": "Michael W. Smith", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Trevi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.", "AUTHOR": "Menander", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A thick skin is a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Adenauer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.", "AUTHOR": "John Barth", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Adoration is caring for God above all else.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Shenouda III", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Peacocke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "They always win who side with God.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Faber", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophanes", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Jarry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God always takes the simplest way.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God does not play dice.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Young", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave in, and admitted that God was God.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God is just, I tremble for my country.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are never defeated unless we give up on God.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent McNabb", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Where love is, there God is also.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God helps those who help themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God enters by a private door into every individual.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is a concept by which we measure our pain.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman was God's second mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest revelation is that God is in every man.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven means to be one with God.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray, and let God worry.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God screens us evermore from premature ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.", "AUTHOR": "Basil Hume", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To love another person is to see the face of God.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Only God can look at somebody's heart.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Gray hair is God's graffiti.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Chester W. Nimitz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Wagner", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God wants to bless us where we are.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.", "AUTHOR": "Charles V", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God's justice is making wrongs right.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is God's command.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.", "AUTHOR": "Charles L. Allen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One and God make a majority.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.", "AUTHOR": "Junipero Serra", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God created man, but I could do better.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always believed in God.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's desire is that we excel.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mandrell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hensley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Aiden Wilson Tozer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The dog is the god of frolic.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God dropped acid, would he see people?", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Patrick", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Have faith in God God has faith in you.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Theology is a science of mind applied to God.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wesley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.", "AUTHOR": "Izaak Walton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God never made a promise that was too good to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Michael W. Smith", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Conscience is God present in man.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ray Cyrus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in God and his son, Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to lobby for God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To you I'm an atheist to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to know God is to love many things.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has entrusted me with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Manin Morrissey", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.", "AUTHOR": "Farrah Fawcett", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Einstein, stop telling God what to do!", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is no God, everything is permitted.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I live and love in God's peculiar light.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's delays are not God's denials.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To love someone means to see him as God intended him.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are the siblings God never gave us.", "AUTHOR": "Mencius", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God continues to work miracles in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed Al-Fayed", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will forgive me. It's his job.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Melamed", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Tauzin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God help those who do not help themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.", "AUTHOR": "Vance Havner", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's face it God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God made me and broke the mold.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ray Cyrus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Watts Mumford", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Bruce", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God cannot alter the past, though historians can.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Watts Mumford", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my best, and God did the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Hattie McDaniel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Kim", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Anderson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Ingalls Wilder", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Julia Cooper", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.", "AUTHOR": "Constantin Brancusi", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Selassie", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Scott", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Nouwen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen G. White", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.", "AUTHOR": "George Bancroft", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Pearl", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.", "AUTHOR": "Vinoba Bhave", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Martinez", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's first creature, which was light.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.", "AUTHOR": "Andres Segovia", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is absence. God is the solitude of man.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Patrick", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Griffith", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.", "AUTHOR": "William Barclay", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love god, burn a church.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is God's novel. Let him write it.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I just thank God for all of the blessings.", "AUTHOR": "James Brown", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Ingelow", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dirac", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Nouwen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Nouwen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Sebastian Bach", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Oksana Baiul", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Let every man be true and every god a liar.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Chen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.", "AUTHOR": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liddell", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.", "AUTHOR": "Mariah Carey", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't do your part, don't blame God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.", "AUTHOR": "John Waters", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is God's joke on human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Daly", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Barnes", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hughes", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Mojo Nixon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bryson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.", "AUTHOR": "James Brown", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Manzarek", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "An honest man's the noblest work of God.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "An honest God is the noblest work of man.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Dark", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind and it didn't seem to matter.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Ray Vaughan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Russell M. Nelson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's finger touched him, and he slept.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.", "AUTHOR": "Fridtjof Nansen", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.", "AUTHOR": "Olusegun Obasanjo", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's dice always have a lucky roll.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.", "AUTHOR": "James Whitcomb Riley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Trakl", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is not a dead equation!", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Adenauer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Hinn", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.", "AUTHOR": "Aiden Wilson Tozer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Orr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes.That's me also.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in God - she will provide.", "AUTHOR": "Emmeline Pankhurst", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.", "AUTHOR": "Jupiter Hammon", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Cary", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Clay", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us but, with the help of God, we will prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Alija Izetbegovic", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Love", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Charles A. Beard", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rahner", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bakker", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God bears with the wicked, but not forever.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We must return to nature and nature's god.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Epps", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God is definitely out of the closet.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Aiden Wilson Tozer", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Korzybski", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.", "AUTHOR": "Eden Phillpotts", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "god" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I can live for two months on a good compliment.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Whately", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good things happen to those who hustle.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.", "AUTHOR": "Cavett Robert", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great man to be a good listener.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to shut up sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Marceau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Less is only more where more is no good.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Acorns were good until bread was found.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the young die good.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Be sweet, be good, and honest always.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bunton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Evans Hughes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.", "AUTHOR": "John Bunyan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "They're only truly great who are truly good.", "AUTHOR": "George Chapman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Winn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Sweat", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you are, be a good one.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is a good walk spoiled.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good conscience is a continual Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as a good tax.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "An overflow of good converts to bad.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Sidey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to live forever. So far, so good.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Great and good are seldom the same man.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good man is the friend of all living things.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When good Americans die they go to Paris.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Paris is always a good idea.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Be not simply good - be good for something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Diligence is the mother of good luck.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Alexander", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.", "AUTHOR": "Yannick Noah", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has not had a good father, one must create one.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never a good war, or a bad peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The pay is good and I can walk to work.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good indignation brings out all one's powers.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Necessity never made a good bargain.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good men must not obey the laws too well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.", "AUTHOR": "J. P. Morgan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What good am I? I can't have kids. I can't cook. I've been divorced three times. Who would want me?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Grenville Kleiser", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Post", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Basil", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It feels good to have your work respected again.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Fun is good.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good artists copy, great artists steal.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.", "AUTHOR": "Grandma Moses", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "AUTHOR": "Grantland Rice", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A hard man is good to find.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.", "AUTHOR": "Marty Robbins", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.", "AUTHOR": "Cavett Robert", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. McLean", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.", "AUTHOR": "William R. Alger", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Frida Kahlo", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.", "AUTHOR": "John A. Simone, Sr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Liars need to have good memories.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Sidney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much of a good thing can be taxing.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no harm in repeating a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good is the beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Diligence is the mother of good fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Better is the enemy of good.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The best is the enemy of the good.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing good ever comes of violence.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All styles are good except the tiresome kind.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good listener is usually thinking about something else.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Boone", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Booth", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My message is that God is a good God.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You can do more good by being good than any other way.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Simon", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No good deed goes unpunished.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In art the best is good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You're only as good as your last haircut.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Douglas", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.", "AUTHOR": "Maxim Gorky", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Godwin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a good loser is to learn how to win.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Lennon", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Williams", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Agassi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Earle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good photograph is knowing where to stand.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good things happen when you meet strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Simone", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Crane", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Kurshan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Eubanks", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Fisher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Astaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Manzarek", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Klosterman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.", "AUTHOR": "James Truslow Adams", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Heller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Lorenz", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good deed never goes unpunished.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dudley White", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always good to be underestimated.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Mackenzie Astin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "God never made a promise that was too good to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Berlin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Aiken", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lyell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Tusser", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Corr", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.", "AUTHOR": "Chili Davis", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Koch", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good laugh is sunshine in the house.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Four legs good, two legs bad.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Landry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.", "AUTHOR": "Ashton Kutcher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.", "AUTHOR": "John Derek", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Dean Stanton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Guillaume Apollinaire", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good writing is like a windowpane.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Haim", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Perry", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Brooks", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Pollock", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Clever men are good, but they are not the best.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.", "AUTHOR": "Red Cloud", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "On the Continent people have good food in England people have good table manners.", "AUTHOR": "George Mikes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Active Evil is better than Passive Good.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "He that does good to another does good also to himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is only as good as what he loves.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be ten o'clock and they'll tell you it's nine. You're looking at the clock and you can't even fathom why they're lying. They just lie because that's what they do.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Wicks", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.", "AUTHOR": "Don Herold", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Hughes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mondavi", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good reputation is more valuable than money.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine of Hippo", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Every good painter paints what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Pollock", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Busey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Horning", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Gallagher", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Manin Morrissey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I'm so tired, I look down at what I'm wearing, and if it's comfortable enough to sleep in, I don't even make it into my pajamas. I'm looking down, and I'm like, 'T-shirt and stretchy pants? Yup, that's fine. It's pajama-y, good night.'", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good husband makes a good wife.", "AUTHOR": "John Florio", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Any good music must be an innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Les Baxter", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Les Paul", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good garden may have some weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.", "AUTHOR": "Hamilton Jordan", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.", "AUTHOR": "James Young", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "good" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the best government that money can buy.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "That government is best which governs least.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harvey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To rule is easy, to govern difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Half", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Governments never learn. Only people learn.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Woollcott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is an abuse of statistics.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Ellison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Reich", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.", "AUTHOR": "Cullen Hightower", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Clay", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Woodworth", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Cronauer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Kempthorne", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Dauten", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.", "AUTHOR": "Cullen Hightower", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Woodworth", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of good government is trust.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.", "AUTHOR": "James Q. Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Mayhew", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is not free unless government is limited.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Lafayette", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lamm", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is us we are the government, you and I.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of society is the end of government.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All government, of course, is against liberty.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government of laws, and not of men.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Lysander Spooner", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Putin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harvey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "That fatal drollery called a representative government.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.", "AUTHOR": "Gracie Allen", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Stern", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.", "AUTHOR": "Buenaventura Durruti", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Means", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Calhoun", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Chavez", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.", "AUTHOR": "Sheikh Hasina", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything government touches turns to crap.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Keyes", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every country has the government it deserves.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph de Maistre", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Sobran", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government stimulates the democrat party.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Claire McCaskill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lesko", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.", "AUTHOR": "Lysander Spooner", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.", "AUTHOR": "James Monroe", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is essentially immoral.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is dysfunctional.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Bastiat", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II was the last government program that really worked.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Means", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Laffer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Dalton Trumbo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.", "AUTHOR": "Lysander Spooner", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Brooks", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophon", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Good government is the outcome of private virtue.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Putin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Love", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.", "AUTHOR": "James F. Cooper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Cromwell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Stark", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Houston", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Coburn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Allen", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Johnson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremiah Wright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.", "AUTHOR": "Geronimo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been about less government.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wynn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the federal government's job to secure the border.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.", "AUTHOR": "Spiro T. Agnew", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.", "AUTHOR": "John Mica", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Levin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santelli", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Badnarik", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hightower", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.", "AUTHOR": "George Deukmejian", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government invented the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hightower", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Brennan, Jr.", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ginger Baker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?", "AUTHOR": "Richard J. Daley", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the government.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Quigley", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Stafford Cripps", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.", "AUTHOR": "Winfield Scott Hancock", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Aggression is simply another name for government.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Tucker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Summers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.", "AUTHOR": "George Grenville", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Jong Il", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Hooker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.", "AUTHOR": "James Reston", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Zhirinovsky", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Sheen", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.", "AUTHOR": "Rob McKenna", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Mackenzie King", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.'", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.", "AUTHOR": "George Lincoln Rockwell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Tuchman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Lessig", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Noonan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Franks", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Chocola", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Reese", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the glue that holds government together.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Coburn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.", "AUTHOR": "Karel Capek", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Beaumarchais", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Zuckerman", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.", "AUTHOR": "John Wycliffe", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Vito Fossella", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Blackburn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Black", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve King", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.", "AUTHOR": "Rafik Hariri", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Boortz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.", "AUTHOR": "William Weld", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Taft", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Evans", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Krohn", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tsongas", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Hart", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lamm", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin Pierce", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.", "AUTHOR": "John Bright", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.", "AUTHOR": "Gouverneur Morris", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Scargill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.", "AUTHOR": "George Weah", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.", "AUTHOR": "William Henry Harrison", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.", "AUTHOR": "Melina Mercouri", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Watts", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.", "AUTHOR": "Al-Waleed bin Talal", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.", "AUTHOR": "Fawn Hall", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "People create jobs, not the government.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "government" }, { "QUOTE": "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brokaw", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Steinberg", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't stop going to school when we graduate.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard King", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Clive James", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I have actually five honorary degrees.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Dunham", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.", "AUTHOR": "John Keegan", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.", "AUTHOR": "Irvine Welsh", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I did get a degree in special education.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Stuart", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.", "AUTHOR": "George Weinberg", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Wax", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Paretsky", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jarmusch", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Evans", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Simon", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Danes", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Hutchins", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wilson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.", "AUTHOR": "Tobias Wolff", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Hinojosa", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Secada", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dundes", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nelson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nelson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Ritts", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Gallagher", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Garneau", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Heenan", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Reines", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.", "AUTHOR": "Al McGuire", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "One half who graduate from college never read another book.", "AUTHOR": "G. M. Trevelyan", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Evans", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Evans", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Herman", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.", "AUTHOR": "David Eddings", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.", "AUTHOR": "James Stewart", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "M. H. Abrams", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Neill", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.", "AUTHOR": "James Green Somerville", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth G. Wilson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth G. Wilson", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hillerman", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Murphy", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.", "AUTHOR": "James Tobin", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Lucid", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Ann Minner", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Blackwell", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Bach", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Buck", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.", "AUTHOR": "Hamilton Jordan", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.", "AUTHOR": "Moira Kelly", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Duncan", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen Forrester", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Hinojosa", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.", "AUTHOR": "Will McDonough", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Taymor", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.", "AUTHOR": "James D'arcy", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Moran", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jurasik", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Guarnaschelli", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Pace", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.", "AUTHOR": "Patina Miller", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Olstead", "GENRE": "graduation" }, { "QUOTE": "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.", "AUTHOR": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is great by deeds, not by birth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of a great love, one is courageous.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Never was anything great achieved without danger.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest wealth is to live content with little.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be humble... you're not that great.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Paterno", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.", "AUTHOR": "Demosthenes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great change in America begins at the dinner table.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuel Teney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is a source of great strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great achievements require time.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No crime is so great as daring to excel.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great and good are seldom the same man.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is either a great adventure or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great man is always willing to be little.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a truth is often a great lie.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To do a great right do a little wrong.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Byrne", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To be great is to be misunderstood.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great acts are made up of small deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Ingelow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Success has always been a great liar.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Vivica Fox", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.", "AUTHOR": "Basil Hume", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Good artists copy, great artists steal.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great truths begin as blasphemies.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Being is the great explainer.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Life in abundance comes only through great love.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I always entertain great hopes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "An index is a great leveller.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Caron", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are only as great as they are kind.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is great love, there are always wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a woman at the begining of all great things.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Boyd", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great hopes make great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great object is that every man be armed.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Gable", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Rizal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is the great aphrodisiac.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great artist is a great man in a great child.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Peter Balkenende", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is only great when he acts from passion.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great ideas originate in the muscles.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To have a great idea, have a lot of them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great man to be a good listener.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Louise L. Hay", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great fortune is a great slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Brown", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To live alone is the fate of all great souls.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.", "AUTHOR": "Yousuf Karsh", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no great genius without some touch of madness.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.", "AUTHOR": "Humphry Davy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Many great actions are committed in small struggles.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great mind becomes a great fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "And your very flesh shall be a great poem.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great loves too must be endured.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has great power should use it lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.", "AUTHOR": "Hamilton Jordan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.", "AUTHOR": "Boy George", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.", "AUTHOR": "Zack de la Rocha", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great peoples are conservative.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great thing is created suddenly.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.", "AUTHOR": "James K. Polk", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.", "AUTHOR": "Hypatia", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!", "AUTHOR": "Peter Hook", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Giuliani", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.", "AUTHOR": "Lope de Vega", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Harrison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a great institution.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine L'Engle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a great deodorant.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Magnani", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great things are done when men and mountains meet.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Yeltsin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Thrift is of great revenue.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Khayyam", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Rockwell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Kaye", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Henry", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Borg", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Theismann", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something great and terrible about suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To have great poets, there must be great audiences.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Produce great men, the rest follows.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Casals", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hughes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.", "AUTHOR": "John Hoeven", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.", "AUTHOR": "Kip Winger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen G. White", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.", "AUTHOR": "William Barclay", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.", "AUTHOR": "Gunter Grass", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Bastiat", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Walters", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kronenberger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great artist is always before his time or behind it.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a great president.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great countries are those that produce great people.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Kim", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Victoria", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Powter", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wilcox", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Yousef Munayyer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Campbell Scott", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Leonard", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Letitia Barbauld", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Gladwell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Spenser", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Ant", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Fonteyn", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Traffic was very, very free. It was great.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Capaldi", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Hamill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Frida Kahlo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.", "AUTHOR": "Renata Adler", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Clinton", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Brooks", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The internet is a great way to get on the net.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dole", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Life should be great rather than long.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.", "AUTHOR": "Mencius", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Snead", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "No man was ever great by imitation.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.", "AUTHOR": "Mencius", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Berlin", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Duncan", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "They never fail who die in a great cause.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalynn Carter", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Barnes", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.", "AUTHOR": "Elsa Schiaparelli", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgos Seferis", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.", "AUTHOR": "Pindar", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art picks up where nature ends.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Foote", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind is made great or little by its own will.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Genet", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Modine", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "He was as great as a man can be without morality.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "great" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Washington", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of our lives is to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness depends upon ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is trembling happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be happy, be.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Khayyam", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Caron", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be happy where you are.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia M. Child", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is an inside job.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Never mind your happiness do your duty.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas William Jerrold", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Chevalier", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a direction, not a place.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Jonson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.", "AUTHOR": "David Lee Roth", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Levant", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Repplier", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To describe happiness is to diminish it.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Desire is individual. Happiness is common.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Casablancas", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness seems made to be shared.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Dimnet", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Levenson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.", "AUTHOR": "Austin O'Malley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not consist in self-love.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To buy happiness is to sell soul.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Pauling", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Perkins Gilman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The right to happiness is fundamental.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.", "AUTHOR": "F. H. Bradley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Andrei Platonov", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.", "AUTHOR": "Booth Tarkington", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.", "AUTHOR": "Frank McCourt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.", "AUTHOR": "William Dean Howells", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Musset", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Isaac Rubin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Independence is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness can exist only in acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of society is the end of government.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Boone", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Nana Mouskouri", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Where fear is, happiness is not.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Guillaume Apollinaire", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the promise of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When ambition ends, happiness begins.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Washington", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the natural flower of duty.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is good health and a bad memory.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Sheehan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Derek", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Baden-Powell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Kushner", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Peabo Bryson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Schumann", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Hart", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is something to do.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.", "AUTHOR": "Maxim Gorky", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Novak", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Garrett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Washington", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Tobey Maguire", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ward Howe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Oberst", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Goldsmith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rimbaud", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Porter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The will of man is his happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Gregg Easterbrook", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.", "AUTHOR": "Debbi Fields", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.", "AUTHOR": "Freya Stark", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Yevgeny Yevtushenko", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Dolley Madison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But happiness is no respecter of persons.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "He who avoids complaint invites happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Grenier", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is no respecter of persons.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know the true meaning of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Zee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the longing for repetition.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Larson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Herrick", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grammer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Barton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Eberhardt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rubinstein", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.", "AUTHOR": "William J. H. Boetcker", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.", "AUTHOR": "John Harrigan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Elsa Schiaparelli", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.", "AUTHOR": "Euripedes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Fenelon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.", "AUTHOR": "Elsie de Wolfe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is always a coincidence.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Bergamin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Norodom Sihamoni", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "John Gunther", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The gratification of desire is not happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Bertinelli", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Ross", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Schubert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My life has run from misery to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness? No, it's not there for me.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Eustace Budgell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.", "AUTHOR": "Holbrook Jackson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Alekhine", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Lee Runbeck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rose", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.", "AUTHOR": "Storm Jameson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Armani", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie P. Snow", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Black", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry St. John", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, love is happiness and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.", "AUTHOR": "John Belushi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Euripedes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bataille", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "George Westinghouse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.", "AUTHOR": "Suge Knight", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Albert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Ocasek", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.", "AUTHOR": "George Mason", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Cornwell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Victoria", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Lauder", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Kaufman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Stuart Phelps", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Kahneman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.", "AUTHOR": "Philo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.", "AUTHOR": "William Cobbett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Prevert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness lies first of all in health.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalia de Castro", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.", "AUTHOR": "Madame de Stael", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Johns", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hood", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sparks", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.", "AUTHOR": "Gisele Bundchen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Lucas", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Laliberte", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You find happiness where you find it.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Paquin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Norris", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Vowell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.", "AUTHOR": "Taraji P. Henson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Claudel", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The most simple things can bring the most happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Izabella Scorupco", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I get way too much happiness from good food.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Pestalozzi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Corr", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Percy Andrus", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Kidder", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ripert", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.", "AUTHOR": "Mary MacLane", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary MacLane", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is no laughing matter.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Whately", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clarke", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Derringer", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Duncan Sheik", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.", "AUTHOR": "Emmylou Harris", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "John Grierson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Sanders", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Landon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is making your dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Jourdan Dunn", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.", "AUTHOR": "James F. Cooper", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Rogers", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Simon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "William Weld", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.", "AUTHOR": "William Bennett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the most important thing is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Swoopes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Al Green", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Murray", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Keys Moran", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hannity", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hampton", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.", "AUTHOR": "William Beveridge", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Akin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Brown", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Jackson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John Mason Brown", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Christie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Margaret", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Finley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Ford", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'", "AUTHOR": "Kitty Kelley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.", "AUTHOR": "Aron Ralston", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Forlani", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan Robinson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.", "AUTHOR": "Donatella Versace", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Salinger", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.", "AUTHOR": "James Payn", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Traherne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy nor fear them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Traherne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Traherne", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.", "AUTHOR": "Park Geun-hye", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac D'Israeli", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Norville", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hay", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Del Rey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nicholson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.", "AUTHOR": "Jilly Cooper", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.", "AUTHOR": "James K. Polk", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.", "AUTHOR": "Jermaine Jackson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.", "AUTHOR": "Islom Karimov", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.", "AUTHOR": "John Woolman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age has its happiness and troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Calment", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne du Maurier", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "AUTHOR": "Fanny Burney", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Riley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Duffy", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Pritchett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Gardiner", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.", "AUTHOR": "David Hyde Pierce", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.", "AUTHOR": "William H. Seward", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.", "AUTHOR": "Bharati Mukherjee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Success can create more madness than happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ocean", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Dennett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Martin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Grenfell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Evangeline Lilly", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Adams", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Rice", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Trout", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.", "AUTHOR": "Annni-Frid Lyngstad", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evans", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Mount", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.", "AUTHOR": "William Burroughs", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.", "AUTHOR": "Carlo Collodi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no happiness outside of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Suplee", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Harris", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Artie Lange", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.", "AUTHOR": "Olympia Brown", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Mayhew", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is power it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "John Howe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Gordon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.", "AUTHOR": "Sergey Brin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.", "AUTHOR": "William Hall", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Bulfinch", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Dukan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lowell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth George", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Pitino", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbara", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Kristel", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanora Duse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The groundwork of all happiness is health.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Travaglia", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.", "AUTHOR": "John Mason Good", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Swit", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, flowers are happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Stefano Gabbana", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.", "AUTHOR": "August Strindberg", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Hughes", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "John Leguizamo", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Long", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Kahneman", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hiller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Oliphant", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Nielsen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.", "AUTHOR": "Ioan Gruffudd", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Cab Calloway", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.", "AUTHOR": "Dyan Cannon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Sidney", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James Sumner Maine", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Gibbs", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Brooks", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Arizona Muse", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.", "AUTHOR": "Bar Refaeli", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Orne Jewett", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.", "AUTHOR": "Kaya Scodelario", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Giraldus Cambrensis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Brydon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Wright", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Nassau William Senior", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCormack", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia.", "AUTHOR": "Peter MacKay", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.", "AUTHOR": "Leni Riefenstahl", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Alibar", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Clayton Christensen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Clayton Christensen", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.", "AUTHOR": "Vittorio Alfieri", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Inglis", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Storr", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Hagan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Knox", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Merrill Markoe", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.", "AUTHOR": "Russell M. Nelson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.", "AUTHOR": "Bennett Miller", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Pollock", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.", "AUTHOR": "Pia Toscano", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Hoff", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Parsley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Gottlieb Fichte", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Webber", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Collier", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Delon", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Webb", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Van Doren", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Van Doren", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Meynell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.", "AUTHOR": "Ring Lardner", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Kenichi Fukui", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is only real when shared.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher McCandless", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Powell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.", "AUTHOR": "William Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to they ask me to.", "AUTHOR": "Brenda Fassie", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.", "AUTHOR": "DJ Jazzy Jeff", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.", "AUTHOR": "Ausonius", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Marat", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.", "AUTHOR": "Islom Karimov", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Islom Karimov", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kerr", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wortley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wortley", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Loiseau", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.", "AUTHOR": "Lucan", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Bailey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Field", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gala", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Sumner", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Alger", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Chase", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.", "AUTHOR": "George Porter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.", "AUTHOR": "George Porter", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Winifred Holtby", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Grenfell", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.", "AUTHOR": "Letty Cottin Pogrebin", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Money cannot buy happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Annni-Frid Lyngstad", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Mann", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Walpole", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Kareena Kapoor", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Day Hershey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Harrison", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "A good education is another name for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Plato", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Took", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Hutcheson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.", "AUTHOR": "James Smithson", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Edwards", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilmot", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Delius", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?", "AUTHOR": "Richard Owen Cambridge", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.", "AUTHOR": "Rex Reed", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!", "AUTHOR": "Chandler Massey", "GENRE": "happiness" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The wish for healing has always been half of health.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body hears everything your mind says.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Judd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy outside starts from the inside.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Urich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Martinez", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Foster Bennett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Harkin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Principal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?", "AUTHOR": "Clara Schumann", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Yzerman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.", "AUTHOR": "Lorna Luft", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The body is a sacred garment.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Piazza", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Principal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.", "AUTHOR": "John Deacon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.", "AUTHOR": "Casper Van Dien", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry St. John", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand before you a totally healthy person.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Etheridge", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still healthy as can be.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.", "AUTHOR": "Lexa Doig", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Thorne Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy people live with their world.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost when health is lost, something is lost when character is lost, all is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Brahms", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The first wealth is health.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.", "AUTHOR": "Junipero Serra", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship is like sound health the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Redd Foxx", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is not valued till sickness comes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is good health and a bad memory.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Douglas", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Ant", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health consists with temperance alone.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Hart", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Cronkite", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.", "AUTHOR": "Atal Bihari Vajpayee", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I received free health care.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hall", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Cynicism is humor in ill health.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is hard work and bad for the health.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Gutierrez", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health food makes me sick.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is very good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Highet", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Dayton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is fine.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.", "AUTHOR": "David Satcher", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People use so much more health care when they live longer.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We drink one another's health and spoil our own.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.", "AUTHOR": "Buzz Aldrin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America doesn't have health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective health care depends on self-care this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Berwick", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Hydraulic fracturing requires massive amounts of water. Disposing of the toxic wastewater, as well as accidental spills, can contaminate drinking water and harm human health.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Shalhoub", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health and my family are the core of my being.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?", "AUTHOR": "Al Sharpton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is very much improved.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Obey", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's health is her capital.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "With the loss of Free Choice Vouchers, hundreds of thousands of workers will now be forced to choose between their employers' unaffordable insurance or going without health care.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Buechner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.", "AUTHOR": "John Forbes Nash, Jr.", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Berwick", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.", "AUTHOR": "William Falconer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Johns", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that if we can care about whether or not our neighbor has a good job or access to affordable health care for their children, and we move to implement the policies that can improve these situations, we will unleash vast amounts of human potential and recapture the American spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Ryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Blagojevich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Keller", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Lack of time is a real health killer.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was on Broadway, I got really sick with walking pneumonia. I decided not to take my health for granted anymore and make it a priority. The great thing is, the pounds just started to fall off.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think health is another exceedingly important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For the amount of money that the country is going to spend this year on health care, you can go out and hire a doctor for every seven families in the US and pay the doctor almost $230,000 a year to cover them.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the most important aspect of Medicare is not the structure of the program but the guarantee to all Americans that they will have high quality health care as they get older.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Elaine MacDonald", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Hey 'Bachelor,' take notes! Trusting one another and sharing a journey to health leads to lasting relationships!", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Branden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Bernice Johnson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no regrets. I've got my health.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Campbell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of health anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Bond", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.", "AUTHOR": "C. Everett Koop", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.", "AUTHOR": "Davey Havok", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy, there are no benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always enjoyed poor health.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Toomey", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Radcliffe", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "High-quality food is better for your health.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Ferguson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Yzerman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Fluke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.", "AUTHOR": "David Axelrod", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Krugman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her!", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.", "AUTHOR": "William Falconer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never too late to take your heart health seriously and make it a priority.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.", "AUTHOR": "Amartya Sen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness lies first of all in health.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.", "AUTHOR": "James Earl Jones", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dekker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in very good health. I've never felt better.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Johns", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Brewer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Brewer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Stanley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?", "AUTHOR": "Petrarch", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in health care reform.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manchin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Cornwell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Sugar Ray Leonard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Ari Fleischer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.", "AUTHOR": "Britt Ekland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Placido Domingo", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Moore", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill to end the bailouts cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Bruno", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Fraser", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I should do something about the cigarettes I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that everyone is saying all kinds of things about 'rich.' Not only am I rich from doing some of things I've been able to do, but I'm rich in spirit. I'm rich in health. I'm rich in every way possible.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Shorter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Jindal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My background is in health care.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Jindal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Voight", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.", "AUTHOR": "B. B. King", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe health care is a civil right.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southey", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We will always make sure player health and safety is our No. 1 priority in the NFL.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "David Axelrod", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn't have had it if the president hadn't acted are better off.", "AUTHOR": "David Axelrod", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Steyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Ronson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.", "AUTHOR": "John Shadegg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Dita Von Teese", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Haggard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.", "AUTHOR": "William Falconer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.", "AUTHOR": "Richard H. Davis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.", "AUTHOR": "George Weinberg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The concern right now is that families are paying for insurance, or getting insurance from their employer and trusting that health care will be available for their families. In too many instances now, the care they need isn't available.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that we have a number of different health care challenges in our country, and certainly addressing the uninsured is one, and the second is making sure that those with health insurance actually get the care that they assume they'll have available to them if they get sick.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the core of human development.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Reece", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Bledsoe", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages, but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans, we try to keep our focus on the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.", "AUTHOR": "Tab Hunter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Moseley Braun", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.", "AUTHOR": "Katarina Witt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Scott", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gillmor", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gillmor", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gillmor", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Hanson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had any health problems and I'm Ruben, man, all the way through.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health and education are always issues.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Clark", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lesko", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lesko", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Family, nature and health all go together.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Newton-John", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option it is a basic health care necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Thompson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.", "AUTHOR": "Jhumpa Lahiri", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.", "AUTHOR": "John Hutton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.", "AUTHOR": "John Hutton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.", "AUTHOR": "L. Neil Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Berenger", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Ferguson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Nelson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Ayers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Solondz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Mann", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I would give it all back to have my health.", "AUTHOR": "David Gest", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Sidney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Rieu", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Layton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Earle", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Quivers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Garrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Garrett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Mills", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Mills", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Mills", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Akin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Ari Fleischer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.", "AUTHOR": "Michele Bachmann", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the people up here get their health care through religious organizations and so that religious freedom issue is very important to them.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Portman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Limbaugh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'", "AUTHOR": "Artur Davis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bernstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bernstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gramm", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Grassley", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Lomu", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients and that is exactly where it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Chocola", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin Newsom", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Moore", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important for women to have a choice, to have an opportunity to plan their families, because if they don't, the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own, and they're going to begrudge that child everything, from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Moore", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.", "AUTHOR": "John Conyers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.", "AUTHOR": "John Conyers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.", "AUTHOR": "John Conyers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.", "AUTHOR": "John Conyers", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dodd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dodd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry L. Stimson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.", "AUTHOR": "Avicenna", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Barker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Bishop", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Feingold", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Feingold", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.", "AUTHOR": "Rafer Johnson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Fraser", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.", "AUTHOR": "John Zimmerman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow, health or illness.", "AUTHOR": "Holbrook Jackson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Gregg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Gregg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Walden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.", "AUTHOR": "John Kasich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.", "AUTHOR": "John Kasich", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.", "AUTHOR": "Elton Gallegly", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Blumenthal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Blumenthal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.", "AUTHOR": "Alonzo Mourning", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Darden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Corrine Brown", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.", "AUTHOR": "Corrine Brown", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Hinault", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Cuccurullo", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Menino", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Tusser", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadette Peters", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.", "AUTHOR": "David Korten", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.", "AUTHOR": "Spencer Bachus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.", "AUTHOR": "Spencer Bachus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ford", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baucus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baucus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baucus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.", "AUTHOR": "Bebe Neuwirth", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Hammond", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Crapo", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Chan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Berwick", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Kidder", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Schneider", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Schneider", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Coble", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Coble", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.", "AUTHOR": "Anacharsis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Weldon", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Hannan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brown", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Hinojosa", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Hinojosa", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Americans want health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Lew", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Lew", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Lew", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Lew", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Smith", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Engel", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ferguson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Goode", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Castro", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Philip", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "General Motors spends more on health care than steel.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.", "AUTHOR": "Chaka Fattah", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.", "AUTHOR": "David Alan Grier", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Jowett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.", "AUTHOR": "Chiang Kai-shek", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "For many years I didn't have health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Harbach", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Steyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Steyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Steyn", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hightower", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.", "AUTHOR": "John Shadegg", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tunney", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Mahony", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shuster", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Boyd", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.", "AUTHOR": "Reince Priebus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Miller", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Miller", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Hollen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Hollen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Carnahan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Singing really oxygenates your blood. You stretch your lungs and take in much more air into them than before. It's really good for your health.", "AUTHOR": "Marisa Tomei", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Daschle", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Baldwin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Fedoroff", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Page", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Huffman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Huffman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Huffman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Berman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I do agree we need health care reform however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.", "AUTHOR": "John Mica", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Martelly", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Helen Spence", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Adler", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Murphy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Murphy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Security is still the most important issue facing Washington state residents and millions of Americans - the security of having a job, of access to affordable health care, of a quality education, and of protecting our homeland and defending our nation.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clayton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Meriwether", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Servetus", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Castle", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Polis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Skarsgard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Rosling", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Griffin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Banda", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Walker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Blair", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Wilson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Veneman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Veneman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Veneman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Bredesen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Veneman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Bredesen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Veneman", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Braeden", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.", "AUTHOR": "John Spratt", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Fujimori", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.", "AUTHOR": "John Anderson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Shays", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Krauthammer", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Shays", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts, lungs, and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier, smarter, and more energetic.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pozen", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.", "AUTHOR": "T-Bone Burnett", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Shays", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Hatcher", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.", "AUTHOR": "Hilda Solis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shilton", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.", "AUTHOR": "Hilda Solis", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Navarro", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not obsessive about anything except my health.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Gray", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.", "AUTHOR": "C. Everett Koop", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Antin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Baker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin Raines", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.", "AUTHOR": "Bill McCollum", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Vilsack", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.", "AUTHOR": "William Hall", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Harkin", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Rattner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got self-imposed term limits of six terms if I have the privilege to serve that long.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Rigell", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Rattner", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kerr", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Dobson", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been proven that fitting more activity into your day can greatly improve your health.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Dukan", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Wicker", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Roybal-Allard", "GENRE": "health" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I came, I saw, I conquered.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is more or less bunk.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What is history but a fable agreed upon?", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "God cannot alter the past, though historians can.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History never looks like history when you are living through it.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Columbus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a vast early warning system.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Adenauer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II was the last government program that really worked.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "William Halsey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very good historical book about history.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "James K. Polk", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.", "AUTHOR": "David Horowitz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.", "AUTHOR": "A. Whitney Brown", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine Birrell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nikita Khrushchev", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.", "AUTHOR": "Marge Piercy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Koppel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The future has a way of arriving unannounced.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is my greatest enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a vision of God's creation on the move.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ford", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cousin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Tuchman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver North", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to look at history as an evolution of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Chretien", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.", "AUTHOR": "James K. Polk", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Libraries are not made, they grow.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine Birrell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.", "AUTHOR": "James Stockdale", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.", "AUTHOR": "Irving R. Kaufman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Charles", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Bernice Johnson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Chirac", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Chirac", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.", "AUTHOR": "G. Gordon Liddy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Black", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned the value of research in World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Amar Bose", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Berger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Beschloss", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Morrow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Antonio Samaranch", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.", "AUTHOR": "Byron White", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Mitterrand", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "That great dust-heap called 'history'.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine Birrell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.", "AUTHOR": "William Manchester", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.", "AUTHOR": "Irving R. Kaufman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Irving R. Kaufman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.", "AUTHOR": "George M. Humphrey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.", "AUTHOR": "David M. Shoup", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not makers of history. We are made by history.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is written by the victors.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a set of lies agreed upon.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Live out of your imagination, not your history.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Blood alone moves the wheels of history.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History should be written as philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.", "AUTHOR": "Norodom Sihanouk", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolutions are the locomotives of history.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History, a distillation of rumour.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Assassination has never changed the history of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Selassie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History develops, art stands still.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.", "AUTHOR": "Jefferson Davis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a race between education and catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of art is the history of revivals.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.", "AUTHOR": "Babatunde Olatunji", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think you have it tough, read history books.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Clough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History shows that there are no invincible armies.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Grandma Moses", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.", "AUTHOR": "C. Wright Mills", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Tuchman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All History is current all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas shape the course of history.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of liberty is a history of resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who have really made history are the martyrs.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In Jewish history there are no coincidences.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hall", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing is to make history, not to write it.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes - history needs a push.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Human history in essence is the history of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.", "AUTHOR": "David Brinkley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All history is incomprehensible without Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Renan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Value people on their potential, not on their history.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Quigley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the materialist conception of history is valid.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Black history is American history.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.", "AUTHOR": "Malcom X", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.", "AUTHOR": "Kanye West", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is Philosophy teaching by example.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Burns", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the world is the world's court of justice.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!", "AUTHOR": "Nikita Khrushchev", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Marty Meehan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Charles A. Beard", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History takes time. History makes memory.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.", "AUTHOR": "William McKinley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Burton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our history is not our destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.", "AUTHOR": "John Baldacci", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abrahams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Putin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Banks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Il-sung", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.", "AUTHOR": "Ilka Chase", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Libeskind", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Legend remains victorious in spite of history.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Roosevelt Longworth", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.", "AUTHOR": "Stefan Zweig", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Arundhati Roy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Jaspers", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Manzarek", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.", "AUTHOR": "Roh Moo-hyun", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a history nut.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side?", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I do consider myself part of black history.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "World history is a court of judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the science of things which are not repeated.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.", "AUTHOR": "Mangosuthu Buthelezi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Bennett", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Menzies", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You're going to relegate my history to a month.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In history people dressed much better than we do today.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I normally ignore the History Channel.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Alger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm inspired by history, different periods.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural history is not about producing fables.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Gutierrez", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Rosabeth Moss Kanter", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Bragg", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Mailer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Roiphe", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.", "AUTHOR": "Carl T. Rowan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.", "AUTHOR": "James Nasmyth", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not come to NASA to make history.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Moyers", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.", "AUTHOR": "John Perkins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Gell-Mann", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History's a resource.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Desai", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.", "AUTHOR": "Leopold Von Ranke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Abernathy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.", "AUTHOR": "Eldridge Cleaver", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History passes the final judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that both men, Bush and Blair, will be damned in history. Both men have made their respective countries the two most hated countries in the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Galloway", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.", "AUTHOR": "Lion Feuchtwanger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.", "AUTHOR": "Rick James", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.", "AUTHOR": "Abba Eban", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Keller", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Neill", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Osborne", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.", "AUTHOR": "LeRoy Neiman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go down in history.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I like American history.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Haig", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. P. Taylor", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.", "AUTHOR": "Madame de Stael", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A chronicle is very different from history proper.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.", "AUTHOR": "Cecil Beaton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is always changing.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve King", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis George", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.", "AUTHOR": "Hans-Georg Gadamer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Henry Parkhurst", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Emir Kusturica", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.", "AUTHOR": "Enoch Powell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can learn from history.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Strip malls are history.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of mankind is the history of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Pirandello", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Sky", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene V. Debs", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.", "AUTHOR": "Renata Adler", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll watch any show on the History Channel.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.", "AUTHOR": "David McCullough", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Gilbert", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.", "AUTHOR": "Hassan Nasrallah", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.", "AUTHOR": "Sprague Grayden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Genet", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Mailer", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kruger", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Clemenceau", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History can never be covered up.", "AUTHOR": "Zhu Rongji", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Jackson Turner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Barton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Engels", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.", "AUTHOR": "Ma Jian", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.", "AUTHOR": "Potter Stewart", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.", "AUTHOR": "Bhumibol Adulyadej", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Apted", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Scarlett Johansson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lang", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.", "AUTHOR": "Giuseppe Garibaldi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Putin", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Life doesn't just happen it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure history has ended.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "World history is tragic.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Becker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Wilson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?", "AUTHOR": "John Guare", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Benda", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.", "AUTHOR": "James Lee Burke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.", "AUTHOR": "B. H. Liddell Hart", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Bonner", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Abbey", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.", "AUTHOR": "Antonia Fraser", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Krist Novoselic", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Novak", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.", "AUTHOR": "John Moody", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Field", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hayden", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.", "AUTHOR": "T. Boone Pickens", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Vorilhon", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.", "AUTHOR": "Strom Thurmond", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "history" }, { "QUOTE": "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is where the heart is.", "AUTHOR": "Pliny the Elder", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.", "AUTHOR": "Tad Williams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Charity begins at home, but should not end there.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Where thou art, that is home.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The home should be the treasure chest of living.", "AUTHOR": "Le Corbusier", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.", "AUTHOR": "Smedley Butler", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Pollock", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Henry Parkhurst", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.", "AUTHOR": "Anthea Turner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's house is his castle.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.", "AUTHOR": "George Pataki", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Guinn", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.", "AUTHOR": "William Jerome", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's home is his wife's castle.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Chase", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home wasn't built in a day.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Sherwood Ace", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Scott", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Shepard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalynn Carter", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek home for rest, for home is best.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Tusser", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The home is the chief school of human virtues.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A heart makes a good home for the friend.", "AUTHOR": "Yunus Emre", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Langella", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The prospect of going home is very appealing.", "AUTHOR": "David Ginola", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Branch", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.", "AUTHOR": "Suzy Bogguss", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Coke", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Loos", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Stiles", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Stewart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Brightman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Anatole Grunwald", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Melody Beattie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.", "AUTHOR": "Freya Stark", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You see much more of your children once they leave home.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is where one starts from.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A home without books is a body without soul.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Before deciding to retire, stay home for a week and watch the daytime TV shows.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.", "AUTHOR": "Rumi", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But, you know, you can't be a star at home.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Edwards", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Burnett", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Godin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.", "AUTHOR": "Vance Havner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Douglas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Corelli", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Newton-John", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Elmer Davis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Maria is the best reason to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Reznor", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.", "AUTHOR": "James Dobson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Mantle", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Ida B. Wells", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Chapman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Harmon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To be an ideal guest, stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Moore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Banks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Lawson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.", "AUTHOR": "Ivor Novello", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.", "AUTHOR": "James Brady", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is pretty utopian.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Ellison", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Ayers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Neelly Bellah", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to have a robot at home.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Day", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an abacus at home.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my home and I like the nature.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I left home because I was hungry.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph A. Schumpeter", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being at home and cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Blunt", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Going home must be like going to render an account.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'", "AUTHOR": "Blake Shelton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.", "AUTHOR": "John Shadegg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Proper school nutrition must be complemented by activities outside of the cafeteria. The decisions parents make to keep their kids healthy are critical in fighting this battle on the home front.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph P. Kennedy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.", "AUTHOR": "Silvia Cartwright", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.", "AUTHOR": "Don Fraser", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.", "AUTHOR": "Goldie Hawn", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Fry", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Murray", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never would have given up my work to stay home.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I could lie and say my wife cooks for me, but she doesn't. My wife has never learnt cooking but she has great cooks at home.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Knott", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs.", "AUTHOR": "Satyajit Ray", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Long", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.", "AUTHOR": "Monique Lhuillier", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Prescott National Forest is right on the edge of my home in Arizona.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cormier", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.", "AUTHOR": "Sojourner Truth", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.", "AUTHOR": "David Frost", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.", "AUTHOR": "Matsuo Basho", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Carter", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "Gwendolyn Brooks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Chesney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Moore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.", "AUTHOR": "Shirin Ebadi", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Gibb", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Addams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Black", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, like neurosis, begins at home.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Sapirstein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Moore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Rockne", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "All I was doing was trying to get home from work.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Parks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.", "AUTHOR": "Elsie de Wolfe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Nicole Smith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, London is and always will be home.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Wood", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Alexander", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'", "AUTHOR": "Tim Vine", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Waters", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My home has always been show business.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Secunda", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But Vegas is really my first home.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Morris", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Morgenstern", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Stone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being home at Christmastime.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.", "AUTHOR": "Hakeem Olajuwon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Marcuse", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But as far as Twitter, I'll be in a restaurant and I'll get home and somebody tweeted and they talked about what I ordered and what I was wearing. In some cases, that could be dangerous, because you don't want everybody to know where you are every second of every day.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.", "AUTHOR": "S. E. Hinton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lasorda", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.", "AUTHOR": "Carl T. Rowan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Orr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Dennett", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always drawn strength from being close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.", "AUTHOR": "Redd Foxx", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.", "AUTHOR": "Ryne Sandberg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.", "AUTHOR": "Afrika Bambaataa", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.", "AUTHOR": "C. J. Cherryh", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Clough", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Falco", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Blagojevich", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Rindner Tempelsman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Jones", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need to be asking for money for local museums and other projects just to make me look good back home.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I know people that could serve me canned tuna and saltine crackers and have me feel more at home at their table than some people who can cook circles around me. The more you try to impress people, generally the less you do.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Curtis Chapman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Like most citizens of popular and international urban centres, I don't take advantage of the cultural opportunities. Perhaps this comes from growing up in suburbia. Home is where you eat, sleep, read, watch television and ignore your parents. It is not where you go to the ballet and then attend a heated panel discussion about it afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.", "AUTHOR": "Hakeem Olajuwon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I really see myself as a homegirl. Wales is my first home. London is my second home - I've been there 14 years now.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm launching my own festival in South Wales. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time. It's going to be held at Margam Park, because I wanted the venue to be as close to my home as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I got a little bit more time at home. I am away a lot and being around my loved ones and friends is good for me. It grounds me. It's something I need to make more time for. I think I need a little more balance.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Biel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It's crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different vibe. When I'm home with my kids and partner, I will cook - even though she's a very good cook. She's learned over the years. We started with basics, you know, how to saute onions, how to saute mushrooms.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great ice creams at home for my family. Since it freezes basically on contact, you can have ice cream ready in mere minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.", "AUTHOR": "Eden Ahbez", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I carry groceries home on the tank of my motorcycle.", "AUTHOR": "Stephan Jenkins", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Family makes a house a home.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get a chance to be home much.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my home.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I cook all my meals at home.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!", "AUTHOR": "Corbin Bleu", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The thrill of coming home has never changed.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Morrow", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.", "AUTHOR": "Dawn French", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, the easiest recipes are the most successful when it comes to the home cook, because they're not intimidated by them. If I'm doing 'Boy Meets Grill,' and I do something very simple like grilled hamburgers or steaks or chicken, those are the most sought-after recipes.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don't bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a very toxic home.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A nutritionist helps me eat healthily at home.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.", "AUTHOR": "Sadie Frost", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I tentatively believe in a god. I was brought up in a fairly religious home. I think the world is compatible with reincarnation, karma, all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Vachss", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Nash", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Gerrard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Scott", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Franz", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.", "AUTHOR": "Roald Dahl", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Malone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "This is truly a blessing. Breyon Prescott, Peter Edge and Tom Corson believe in me and have introduced me to a home that also believes and knows exactly what to do with the type of music I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Sheehan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Banks", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.", "AUTHOR": "Major R. Owens", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.'", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Crowe", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.", "AUTHOR": "Potter Stewart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is where my mom is.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth doth run and ride. He knows he hath a home, but scarce knows where He says it is so far, that he has quite forgot how to go there.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Vaughan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.", "AUTHOR": "Ellsworth Huntington", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.", "AUTHOR": "G. Gordon Liddy", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care because I really feel that if I'm at my best, than I'm able to come to my job and really be feeling the best, so if I'm not working out or going on a hike, than I'm at home recharging and cooking dinner and hanging out with my cat.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel.", "AUTHOR": "Sprague Grayden", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think because my life is so insane and it's constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hayes", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.", "AUTHOR": "Amitabh Bachchan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Crawford", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house that was done many thousands of years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to the store and bought lady fingers, when I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a good tough producer, yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home, I think everybody in the home gets threatened.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived at home till I was 29.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Romano", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.", "AUTHOR": "John Ratzenberger", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "For President Obama, 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem, but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility, but because it makes for a stronger, more secure American economy.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Behr", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Henderson", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Neelly Bellah", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate formal stuff. I love looking like a doll and all that stuff and playing dress up, but when I'm home, sweat pants, t-shirt. When I'm in the studio, sweat pants, t-shirt.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Calamity Jane", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Melinda Gates", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Dalio", "GENRE": "home" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "He that lives upon hope will die fasting.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the dream of a waking man.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Never deprive someone of hope it might be all they have.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Chester W. Nimitz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is no vision, there is no hope.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To live without Hope is to Cease to live.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware how you take away hope from another human being.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope will never be silent.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Milk", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Porchia", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Letitia Elizabeth Landon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a waking dream.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. DeVos", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent McNabb", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.", "AUTHOR": "George Chakiris", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.", "AUTHOR": "Basil Hume", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is a dealer in hope.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "While there's life, there's hope.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.", "AUTHOR": "David D. Burns", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, we're marketing hope.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.", "AUTHOR": "Pliny the Elder", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Layton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the death of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Bradley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durst", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Yves Saint Laurent", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The youth is the hope of our future.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Rizal", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.", "AUTHOR": "April Winchell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Clough", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Grandma Moses", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Charles Swinburne", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.", "AUTHOR": "Lalu Prasad Yadav", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rahner", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmed Ali", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to die in the saddle seat.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Debussy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Hammerstein II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the denial of reality.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Weis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.", "AUTHOR": "Susanna Moodie", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.", "AUTHOR": "Geezer Butler", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.", "AUTHOR": "Yoshio Taniguchi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Carroll", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.", "AUTHOR": "Hodding Carter", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Novak", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is patience with the lamp lit.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Ivo Andric", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Schubert", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Bodett", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.", "AUTHOR": "William McKinley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Ives", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Day", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Banneker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Inouye", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware how you take away hope from any human being.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Davis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Palin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Addams", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.", "AUTHOR": "George Weinberg", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep hope alive!", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Ochs", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Burnham", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope my own children never have to fight a war.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Zinedine Zidane", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frank", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.", "AUTHOR": "John Breaux", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Nilsson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.", "AUTHOR": "Don Shula", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.", "AUTHOR": "Clarissa Pinkola Estes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I die before I get old.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Daltrey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Uecker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Bourne", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I have important things to say.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just a part of our nature to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My sweetest hope is to lose hope.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's hope you feel better now.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.", "AUTHOR": "Eldridge Cleaver", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Young", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Etheridge", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Willem de Kooning", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to bring people to God with my songs.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One must not hope to be more than one can be.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Abrams", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I still believe in a place called Hope.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Haley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hartnett", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.", "AUTHOR": "Atal Bihari Vajpayee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Henry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny G", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Flay", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Simmons", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now a lot of people are still choosing to go to Toronto instead of shooting in New York City, something I haven't done and something I hope I'll never have to do.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Stahl", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Pirandello", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Mumford Jones", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Bridges", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Nelson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope to get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Reed", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Madden", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to inspire people, influence people.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.", "AUTHOR": "B. H. Liddell Hart", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Mahler", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Giuliani", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lando", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.", "AUTHOR": "Orville Wright", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The great hope of society is in individual character.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Zimmer Bradley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me every day, you haven't seen me for months and you're trying to seduce me, you'd better spice up that text and make it more exciting than 'How was your day? I hope you're having a beautiful one.' Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Smith", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.", "AUTHOR": "Karl A. Menninger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.", "AUTHOR": "Frank R. Wolf", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.", "AUTHOR": "Anil Kapoor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Axel Munthe", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people prevails. If it does we must move quickly to help restore stability and prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Messi", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.", "AUTHOR": "John Thorn", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a very unruly emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We use the word 'hope' perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: 'I hope it's a nice day.' 'Hopefully, you're doing well.' 'So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.'", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.", "AUTHOR": "Mariah Carey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Norris Russell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.", "AUTHOR": "George Foreman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lampard", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Edwards", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Way", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Auster", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to be an actor and never retire.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Ives", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Capa", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.", "AUTHOR": "David Brudnoy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.", "AUTHOR": "Tom DeLonge", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Carter", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure... and I liked it.'", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Seacrest", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Skaggs", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.", "AUTHOR": "William Christopher", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stresemann", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Cushing", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Thomson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Cornish", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Sitwell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "What you hope for, like Unforgiven did a lot to give you a chance to do it again sometime.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a risk that must be run.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would hope everyone would be a feminist.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Midler", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Roberts", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.", "AUTHOR": "Anish Kapoor", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.", "AUTHOR": "Chelsea Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!", "AUTHOR": "Camille Claudel", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.", "AUTHOR": "George Carey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to get out before they start football next year.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Bryant", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Kelley", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Yzerman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Uecker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Charles Swinburne", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'", "AUTHOR": "Chelsea Clinton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had some incredible moments in my life - thus far. I hope a lot more are coming.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Middleton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We're reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Khan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope springs eternal, even in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Ifill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gehry", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Haddon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Huppert", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.", "AUTHOR": "Khloe Kardashian", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Porchia", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Garrett", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Berenson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Rodman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jonny Lang", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.", "AUTHOR": "David Blaine", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I never get so old I get religious.", "AUTHOR": "Ingmar Bergman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Abbas", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.", "AUTHOR": "B. H. Liddell Hart", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.", "AUTHOR": "Jayson Blair", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Waltari", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.", "AUTHOR": "John Gay", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.", "AUTHOR": "John Hench", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Roy", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Schumacher", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I serve by being a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wiles", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to work with kids any way possible.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.", "AUTHOR": "Marcy Kaptur", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Arnold", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Dennison Prentice", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.", "AUTHOR": "Ouida", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver North", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Our only hope is to control the vote.", "AUTHOR": "Medgar Evers", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.", "AUTHOR": "Marat Safin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Silverstone", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Pierre Raffarin", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. Harvey", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Keller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Faye Dunaway", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hill", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Brewer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Brewer", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.", "AUTHOR": "Fuzzy Zoeller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.", "AUTHOR": "Fuzzy Zoeller", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sort of in denial about doing country for awhile but I sort of grew up and realized who I was, what I wanted to say. I think country music is the best music in the world and I'm glad to be doing a country album. I hope people will love it as much as I loved making it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Gaye", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "hope" }, { "QUOTE": "A joke is a very serious thing.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Sidey", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to humor is surprise.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When humor goes, there goes civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is reason gone mad.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Repplier", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is just another defense against the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is the lowest form of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.", "AUTHOR": "Don Herold", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Clifton Paul Fadiman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Borge", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Jones", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nye", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Gags die, humor doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Benny", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Caesar", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Albee", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Repplier", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob August Riis", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Gelbart", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas W. Higginson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Puns are a form of humor with words.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas W. Higginson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas W. Higginson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas W. Higginson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.", "AUTHOR": "Irvin S. Cobb", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have always had a little humor.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.", "AUTHOR": "Grenville Kleiser", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is the most engaging cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Vega", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I am often the brunt of my own humor.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Cynicism is humor in ill health.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee - or laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Total absence of humor renders life impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Wavy Gravy", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor comes from self-confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?", "AUTHOR": "Dick Clark", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Muir", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Rourke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.", "AUTHOR": "Romain Gary", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a great sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.", "AUTHOR": "William Howard Taft", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Russell", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.", "AUTHOR": "Bret Michaels", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system it could be a lot of different things.", "AUTHOR": "Jensen Ackles", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Mixing humor and politics is something that works.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People with no humor, they're outta my life.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.", "AUTHOR": "John Zorn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Appleton", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized women and humor were linked very closely.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Bil Keane", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I just am a snob when it comes to humor.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "God has a most wicked sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always a source for humor.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Romano", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Clifton Fadiman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "William Gilmore Simms", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to force creativity and humor.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all I was born with this, for better or for worse.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.", "AUTHOR": "Hattie McDaniel", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Sheen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.", "AUTHOR": "Lorna Luft", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Epps", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.", "AUTHOR": "Shel Silverstein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't not put humor in a book.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.", "AUTHOR": "David Alan Grier", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Burke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Daltrey", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Romano", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor can be one of our best survival tools.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Howard", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Morgenstern", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Rall", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Stanton", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Pekar", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Morgan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.", "AUTHOR": "Priscilla Presley", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Garr", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Castellaneta", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Uecker", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'", "AUTHOR": "Catherine O'Hara", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.", "AUTHOR": "A. Whitney Brown", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Carvey", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to cope with everything through humor.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Russell", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not take humor seriously enough.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Lorenz", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.", "AUTHOR": "Barbet Schroeder", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Stone", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Beerbohm Tree", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Brownstein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Brownstein", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.", "AUTHOR": "Bootsy Collins", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a dark sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Kwanten", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Ketcham", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Van Dyke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Trudeau", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Trudeau", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.", "AUTHOR": "Don Bluth", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Ferraro", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Wray", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.", "AUTHOR": "Colm Meaney", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Berenger", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.", "AUTHOR": "Berkeley Breathed", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Pegg", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Pegg", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Kilborn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.", "AUTHOR": "John Kricfalusi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?", "AUTHOR": "John Kricfalusi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.", "AUTHOR": "John Ratzenberger", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.", "AUTHOR": "John Ratzenberger", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.", "AUTHOR": "David Zucker", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Allred", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Stowe", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't, more women would do it.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Clinton", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.", "AUTHOR": "Sherilyn Fenn", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Rieu", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Celler", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Ross", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Smith", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Judd", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durst", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.", "AUTHOR": "John Lithgow", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothea Benton Frank", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?", "AUTHOR": "Casey Affleck", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard to write humor.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Tom DeLonge", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Walsh", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Auerbach", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.", "AUTHOR": "Sergio Aragones", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Hersh", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.", "AUTHOR": "Treat Williams", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.", "AUTHOR": "David Steinberg", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Lee", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Northam", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Teddy Thompson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Preston", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Highsmith", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Clarkson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson DeMille", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is healing.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Garrett", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Watts", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Warburton", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Chalke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.", "AUTHOR": "Ned Rorem", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Collins", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jonny Lee Miller", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jemima Kirke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Biggs", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Shapiro", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.", "AUTHOR": "Anjelica Huston", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.", "AUTHOR": "Eric San", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Winters", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Buble", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Berman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.", "AUTHOR": "Bert Williams", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Allen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Moby", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Roberts", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Tab Hunter", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Blount, Jr.", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Blount, Jr.", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Pigozzi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.", "AUTHOR": "Cecily von Ziegesar", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Dabney Coleman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Kerr", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Milos Forman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.", "AUTHOR": "Tabitha Soren", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Sutter", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Milonakis", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very dark sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Dick", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.", "AUTHOR": "Colm Meaney", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Wiest", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?", "AUTHOR": "Frank Moore Colby", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Showalter", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Reddick", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Kearns Goodwin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Evanovich", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Evanovich", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Evanovich", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Gibson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Swit", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Wayans", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Gardell", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Gee", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Roberts", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Nielsen", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan O'Brien", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Hughes", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a very quick sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Florenz Ziegfeld", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Bagnold", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Favreau", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Wayans", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.", "AUTHOR": "Aziz Ansari", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Britton", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Britton", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.", "AUTHOR": "Michael York", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.", "AUTHOR": "Avi Arad", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Forsyth", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Dan Simmons", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Gray", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Leiber", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cooper", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hale", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Mann", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.", "AUTHOR": "Silvio Berlusconi", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Chadbourne", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hailey", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Cartwright", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Bowman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Ingraham", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Stevenson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Meynell", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Schumer", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Halpern", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Alexander", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Wouk", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Sevareid", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "A boy is naturally full of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Powell", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "William Collins", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.", "AUTHOR": "William Collins", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Rice Burroghs", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.", "AUTHOR": "Leila Josefowicz", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Grant", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Keoghan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Cole", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.", "AUTHOR": "Melinda Clarke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Goad", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.", "AUTHOR": "Logan Henderson", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Van Doren", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Forbes", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I like humor.", "AUTHOR": "David Yates", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Altman", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Ari Graynor", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Blakely", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Arquette", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clymer", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Daniel", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Emmett Kelly", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Segal", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Karmazin", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Clarke", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.", "AUTHOR": "Will Eisner", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.", "AUTHOR": "John Callahan", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sommers", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Walsh", "GENRE": "humor" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has no imagination has no wings.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination rules the world.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Live out of your imagination, not your history.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Nivio Zarlenga", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I imagine that yes is the only living thing.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Michals", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Pegg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Some stories are true that never happened.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gauguin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Michals", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.", "AUTHOR": "Elinor Wylie", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The imagination is man's power over nature.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.", "AUTHOR": "L. Frank Baum", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Thornley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Chase", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Leahy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "This world is but a canvas to our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Science does not know its debt to imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Plath", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Few people have the imagination for reality.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the true magic carpet.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of imagination makes us infinite.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is spiritualized imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The human race is governed by its imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Dubuffet", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the eye of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination decides everything.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "An idea is salvation by imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Schumann", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is no imagination there is no horror.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "True change takes place in the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Coue", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Degas", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sarandon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Danes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Haring", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.", "AUTHOR": "Austin O'Malley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Man lives by imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Elizabeth", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination creates reality.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wagner", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Gillies", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Luis Bunuel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very vivid imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes no imagination to live within your means.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine the Great", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Fry", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Aragon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Serling", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Grizzuti Harrison", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sondheim", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Gordon Low", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Levenson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.", "AUTHOR": "Man Ray", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Schubert", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Hagedorn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Nielsen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Rickenbacker", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Walcott", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "George Meredith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "People can die of mere imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Duncan Sheik", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Page", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Sean O'Faolain", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Bailey Aldrich", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.", "AUTHOR": "Henry George", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the enemy of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wyeth", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wyeth", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is based on imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Martinez", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Highsmith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Ross", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Lacy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bradley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the air of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.", "AUTHOR": "Stella Adler", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Morgenstern", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.", "AUTHOR": "Renny Harlin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Henry Hedge", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Rae Jepsen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Seale", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Nellie Bly", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Cary", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Duke", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners Lee", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Haddon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Cleary", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Gondry", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination creates some big monsters.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Martinez", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.", "AUTHOR": "Olivier Martinez", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Keith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Nunn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Teena Marie", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We especially need imagination in science.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Sewell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination comes of not having things.", "AUTHOR": "LeRoy Neiman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Trudeau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Jones", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Cornelia Funke", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Emmy Rossum", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in your imagination can you revise.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Wray", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Schnabel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.", "AUTHOR": "James Weldon Johnson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.", "AUTHOR": "Abel Ferrara", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the tyrant of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Cornwall", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Berkeley Breathed", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Atkinson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Simpson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Cox", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sarandon", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Krall", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.", "AUTHOR": "Edouard Manet", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hannity", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Bell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Hirsch", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Vance", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Potter", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Walton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.", "AUTHOR": "Dougray Scott", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mahy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.", "AUTHOR": "Jeri Ryan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination needs to be fed.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Januszkiewicz", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wright", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Rockwell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tippett", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tippett", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Strachan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Catton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had an active imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Rickie Lee Jones", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Walton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Keating", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shaffer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Traherne", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.", "AUTHOR": "Oren Peli", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac D'Israeli", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Cox", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Korten", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ishmael Reed", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.", "AUTHOR": "John Desmond Bernal", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Moyers", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Kelley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Keitel", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.", "AUTHOR": "Phylicia Rashad", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.", "AUTHOR": "Phylicia Rashad", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.", "AUTHOR": "Marcello Mastroianni", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Isherwood", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Rich", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Philipp Moritz", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Bell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Smedley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Fieri", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Blume", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.", "AUTHOR": "Lara St. John", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Auerbach", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Roth", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Bell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Sweet", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ada Louise Huxtable", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Tycho Brahe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Shuster", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Shuster", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Dante", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Guston", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.", "AUTHOR": "George Berkeley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.", "AUTHOR": "Ida Tarbell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually I say I have no imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Padilha", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.", "AUTHOR": "Robinson Jeffers", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.", "AUTHOR": "Bharati Mukherjee", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved the world of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "R. A. Salvatore", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Sittenfeld", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Waldman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Waldman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Kane", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Pirandello", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are young your imagination is so clear.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Blackwood", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Eduard Hanslick", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Wilson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.", "AUTHOR": "Alessandro Nivola", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Hunter", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Martinez", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "She has no imagination and that means no compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Foot", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Sutherland", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Barzini", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne Zuniga", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Caulfield", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Forbes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Hagedorn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lugar", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mayhew", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Ashford", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jackson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.", "AUTHOR": "William Warburton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Otto", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.", "AUTHOR": "Les Baxter", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Toller", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Hawkes", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Godwin", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Kinnaman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.", "AUTHOR": "James L. Farmer, Jr.", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kanaly", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Perkins Gilman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Johnson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Robert South", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Colleen McCullough", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moriarty", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.", "AUTHOR": "Nadine Gordimer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Posen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Dubus III", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Lovett", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.", "AUTHOR": "Percival Lowell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Bourne", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Joyce", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Krall", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Creeley", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Michael C. Hall", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Grizzuti Harrison", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rozelle", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schwab", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Murray", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Miller", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Brazile", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Terence McKenna", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.", "AUTHOR": "Tim DeKay", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.", "AUTHOR": "James Welch", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Allsburg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Ann Woll", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmet Zappa", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.", "AUTHOR": "William Trevor", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Fuhrman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Zoe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Keating", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Katzenberg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Apted", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cooper", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Januszkiewicz", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Jo Campbell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?", "AUTHOR": "Iain Sinclair", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.", "AUTHOR": "Rhona Mitra", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Dorfman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Frame", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Breckin Meyer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm McDowell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Maritain", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Barker", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Fred G. Gosman", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Larry McMurtry", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.", "AUTHOR": "Joel C. Rosenberg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Dash", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.", "AUTHOR": "James Merrill", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Mitchell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Sotos", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Orr", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "David Benioff", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.", "AUTHOR": "Adrien Brody", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Fielding", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.", "AUTHOR": "S. E. Hinton", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kinkade", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!", "AUTHOR": "Devon Werkheiser", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.", "AUTHOR": "Dorthea Brande", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.", "AUTHOR": "Roger McGuinn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Greenwood", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Pola Negri", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Harris", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Flynn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Clinton Van Doren", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Wilson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Wilson", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!", "AUTHOR": "Randy Castillo", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Rice Burroghs", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Duvalier", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Terry", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Richards", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "In imagination, there's no limitation.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Victor Hansen", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Lindsay-Hogg", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Marsan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Krantz", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Cockburn", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Reeve Carney", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Ferrer", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Pratt", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon H. Blackwood", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Don Novello", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Banks", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Spall", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Bloch", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.", "AUTHOR": "David Garrick", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Doisneau", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Kovalevskaya", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Drew", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Rossi", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.", "AUTHOR": "Eduard Hanslick", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Calis", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.", "AUTHOR": "Yvonne Craig", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hofstadter", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Hazzard", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Wing Pinero", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?", "AUTHOR": "Francis Cabot Lowell", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Stander", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Gericault", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.", "AUTHOR": "Laurette Taylor", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Howe", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Wogan", "GENRE": "imagination" }, { "QUOTE": "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a waking dream.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.", "AUTHOR": "Nido Qubein", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Change your thoughts and you change your world.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Dean", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "In a gentle way, you can shake the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever is happy will make others happy too.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "You change your life by changing your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lucado", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Young", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way out is always through.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?", "AUTHOR": "Fulton J. Sheen", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "A place for everything, everything in its place.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent McNabb", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "With self-discipline most anything is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief creates the actual fact.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Enthusiasm moves the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Balfour", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.", "AUTHOR": "Han Suyin", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "When deeds speak, words are nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Give light and people will find the way.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Baker", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hopkins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Wallis Simpson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Great hopes make great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Norris Russell", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.", "AUTHOR": "Junipero Serra", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hensley", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of imagination makes us infinite.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "We convince by our presence.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the natural flower of duty.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The authentic self is the soul made visible.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Think with your whole body.", "AUTHOR": "Taisen Deshimaru", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Manzarek", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind is made great or little by its own will.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ideals are our better selves.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas shape the course of history.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Let each man exercise the art he knows.", "AUTHOR": "Aristophanes", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.", "AUTHOR": "Zane Grey", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl James", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I view art as an inspirational tool.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kincade", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Diamandis", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Sabol", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Colbert", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Trigiani", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.", "AUTHOR": "Max Weinberg", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are challenging and inspirational to me.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Swanepoel", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.", "AUTHOR": "James Iha", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Youngblood", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Roma Downey", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Dayne", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Ritenour", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Berry", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.", "AUTHOR": "Ashthon Jones", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Vallejo", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Crawford", "GENRE": "inspirational" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense is not so common.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Information is not knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Action is the real measure of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is educated insolence.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius always finds itself a century too early.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Charles Hare", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Don Herold", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is love and light and vision.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.", "AUTHOR": "A. A. Milne", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.", "AUTHOR": "Gracie Allen", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is initiative on fire.", "AUTHOR": "Holbrook Jackson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no method but to be very intelligent.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Every true genius is bound to be naive.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.", "AUTHOR": "John Fowles", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief is the death of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To think is to practice brain chemistry.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Parker", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.", "AUTHOR": "Spiro T. Agnew", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Always be smarter than the people who hire you.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Horne", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be smart. The easy days are over.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Newman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.", "AUTHOR": "James Whistler", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If little else, the brain is an educational toy.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "People are smarter than you might think.", "AUTHOR": "John Astin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.", "AUTHOR": "Don Herold", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.", "AUTHOR": "G. H. Hardy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.", "AUTHOR": "Irene Peter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Moore", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.", "AUTHOR": "Don Van Vliet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember to be as smart as you are.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is not a science.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Anderson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Sloan Wilson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Karl A. Menninger", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Story", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is a moral category.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The universe is an intelligence test.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Adenauer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Assange", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Columbus", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Beckett", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Chabrol", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is enormously sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Langella", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Thor", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Albarn", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Phaedrus", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Alistair Cooke", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Chilton Pearce", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Ellison", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Daymond John", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Grizzuti Harrison", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Dodson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Near", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mueller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Lynes", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Titus Livius", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Francis Meagher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to exude strength and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Appleton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gramsci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.", "AUTHOR": "Ozzy Osbourne", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If an animal does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.", "AUTHOR": "Hulagu Khan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Thierry Henry", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Solondz", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Bergamin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Panetta", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Panetta", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Holliwell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Eagleburger", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.", "AUTHOR": "James Marsters", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Hooker", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.", "AUTHOR": "David Fincher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mueller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mueller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mueller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lehrer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Lee H. Hamilton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.", "AUTHOR": "David Kay", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Maritain", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Pulitzer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Tucker", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Cushing", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.", "AUTHOR": "Karlheinz Stockhausen", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Castro", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Remy de Gourmont", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Moffat", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.", "AUTHOR": "George Bancroft", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how to depict intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "David Fincher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Morarji Desai", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Wray", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Mountbatten", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Baranski", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Principal", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.", "AUTHOR": "Peter King", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Gilroy", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so strong and the nature of the threat is so grave and serious, as well as imminent, that we have no recourse except to take this action that may involve a lethal strike.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'", "AUTHOR": "Brad Thor", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.", "AUTHOR": "John Frankenheimer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.", "AUTHOR": "Robyn Hitchcock", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.", "AUTHOR": "David Kay", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Brown", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Chocola", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Chocola", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kurzweil", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.", "AUTHOR": "Morris West", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.", "AUTHOR": "Cofer Black", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "George Woodcock", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Hersh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Perle", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Aiello", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Aiello", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Margulis", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Weldon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?", "AUTHOR": "Curt Weldon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Scheuer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Scheuer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Hannan", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Rich", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Feith", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chertoff", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.", "AUTHOR": "Lactantius", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hamlisch", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Karpinski", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Karpinski", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Karpinski", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Gardner", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Eldritch", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Oded Fehr", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Remy de Gourmont", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Vernor Vinge", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Vernor Vinge", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Vernor Vinge", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Graham", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Morse", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.", "AUTHOR": "John Sherman Cooper", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Leigh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Cambone", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Cambone", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Cambone", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Cambone", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Parsons", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.", "AUTHOR": "Tanith Lee", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Jones", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Catharine Beecher", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Polanyi", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.", "AUTHOR": "Norman McLaren", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Saatchi", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.", "AUTHOR": "John Mica", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.", "AUTHOR": "Ida B. Wells", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Mount", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Andrew", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Blackburn", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Gygax", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Martin McGuinness", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "Frederica Montseny", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.", "AUTHOR": "William Hedgcock Webster", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Kinnaman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Zito", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Eriq La Salle", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.", "AUTHOR": "Saxby Chambliss", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.", "AUTHOR": "Saxby Chambliss", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Wicker", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.", "AUTHOR": "George H. Mead", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford D. Simak", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Jaworski", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bremer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?", "AUTHOR": "Erin Gray", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.", "AUTHOR": "William Least Heat-Moon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Ben-Veniste", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Evans Hughes", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.", "AUTHOR": "January Jones", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.", "AUTHOR": "David Blunkett", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Vasari", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Hawkins", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Hawkins", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Williams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Joseph Lodge", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Joseph Lodge", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Hargrave", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Downer", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Cantrell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.", "AUTHOR": "Tyrese Gibson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Carole King", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Goldwyn", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.", "AUTHOR": "John George Nicolay", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Naylor", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.", "AUTHOR": "John Pistole", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.", "AUTHOR": "John Pistole", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Hunt", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.", "AUTHOR": "Chauncey Wright", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.", "AUTHOR": "Godfried Danneels", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?", "AUTHOR": "Peter Schuyler", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Sessions", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Markus Wolf", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.", "AUTHOR": "Markus Wolf", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Delson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Sotos", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nelson", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Freeh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Freeh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Mackenzie", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.", "AUTHOR": "Cofer Black", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Cofer Black", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.", "AUTHOR": "David K. Shipler", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Roberts", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hadley", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Laval", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Pace", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Ray Inman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Ray Inman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Ray Inman", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.", "AUTHOR": "Rafik Hariri", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Rice Burroghs", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Shelby", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.", "AUTHOR": "David Hunt", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cannon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?", "AUTHOR": "Albert Wynn", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Rockefeller", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Stevens", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Stevens", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Stevens", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Crapo", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Armitage", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Thiel", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Fiske", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Ayotte", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.", "AUTHOR": "Charles F. Bass", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Lucien Bouchard", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Hofstadter", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "John Sterling", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Forbes", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.", "AUTHOR": "Nichelle Nichols", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Walsh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne White", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.", "AUTHOR": "Seymour Hersh", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon A. Walters", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.", "AUTHOR": "James Randolph Adams", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.", "AUTHOR": "John Scarlett", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe.", "AUTHOR": "Lizzie Brochere", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Bell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "James Joseph Sylvester", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Cumming", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.", "AUTHOR": "Leopold Trepper", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Helms", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Helms", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Hoekstra", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Jump Cannon", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "John Michael Hayes", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Lucas", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Munch", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Hazzard", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'", "AUTHOR": "Arthur H. Compton", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is nothing without delight.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Claudel", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.", "AUTHOR": "Cristina Kirchner", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Chapman Catt", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.", "AUTHOR": "James Clavell", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "James Hal Cone", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Liautaud", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.", "AUTHOR": "David M. Shoup", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.", "AUTHOR": "James R. Bath", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.", "AUTHOR": "E. Howard Hunt", "GENRE": "intelligence" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Brahms", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Summer Altice", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Francoise Sagan", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy... is a mental cancer.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "He that is jealous is not in love.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.", "AUTHOR": "Fulton J. Sheen", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the fear of comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.", "AUTHOR": "William Wycherley", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "More men die of jealousy than of cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph P. Kennedy", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.", "AUTHOR": "Antisthenes", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.", "AUTHOR": "Lope de Vega", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Van Wyck Brooks", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.", "AUTHOR": "Ludovico Ariosto", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Golden", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is the grave of affection.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is jealous because of his amour propre woman is jealous because of her lack of it.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The knives of jealousy are honed on details.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Rendell", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Carter", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Corkville Briggs", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Kristel", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Bauer van Straten", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Chrissie Hynde", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Eldridge", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not say anything from jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Perle", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.", "AUTHOR": "James Beattie", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.", "AUTHOR": "Abbott L. Lowell", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.", "AUTHOR": "William Graham Sumner", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.", "AUTHOR": "George Meredith", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Lyne", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Veidt", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Raban", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Lawson", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.", "AUTHOR": "J. M. Barrie", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.", "AUTHOR": "Nas", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Fountain", "GENRE": "jealousy" }, { "QUOTE": "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Information is not knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is love and light and vision.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is true opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt grows with knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The true method of knowledge is experiment.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Popper", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Morgan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "John Naisbitt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.", "AUTHOR": "G. I. Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "John Archibald Wheeler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the life of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Blades", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Cudworth", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Dolley Madison", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.", "AUTHOR": "Avicenna", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Castaneda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Kong Fu Zi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Wolfe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is more important than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The only source of knowledge is experience.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All men by nature desire knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Buechner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.", "AUTHOR": "Ali ibn Abi Talib", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Where knowledge ends, religion begins.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The great end of life is not knowledge but action.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "He that hath knowledge spareth his words.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge and human power are synonymous.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.", "AUTHOR": "Moses Hadas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Mosley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander the Great", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.", "AUTHOR": "Venerable Bede", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Friedrich Gauss", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Trotter", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rimbaud", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Zeal will do more than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wonder is the desire for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.", "AUTHOR": "Vine Deloria, Jr.", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Perdue", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Tobey Maguire", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander the Great", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Quillen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Research is creating new knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hardwick", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Lorenz", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is never better than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Enrico Fermi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Reichert", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Houston", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Somers", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.", "AUTHOR": "Li Ka Shing", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.", "AUTHOR": "Philip K. Dick", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James Garrett", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.", "AUTHOR": "David Ben-Gurion", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.", "AUTHOR": "George Jackson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.", "AUTHOR": "Van Wyck Brooks", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gramsci", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph W. Sockman", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grammer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is organized knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Avery Brooks", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.", "AUTHOR": "George Mikes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.", "AUTHOR": "Shinichi Suzuki", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.", "AUTHOR": "Raoul Vaneigem", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Graham", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Kelsey Grammer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Millikan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel D. Palmer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.", "AUTHOR": "John Holt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Castenada", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Denning", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Tavis Smiley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur E. Waite", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Brooks Atkinson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Lacan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.", "AUTHOR": "Richard King", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.", "AUTHOR": "John Wycliffe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.", "AUTHOR": "Juvenal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.", "AUTHOR": "George Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Bolingbroke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Ellison", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Berger", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Reid", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Ellsworth Huntington", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Watts Mumford", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.", "AUTHOR": "Orville Wright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You should not ask questions without knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Branden", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "F. H. Bradley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Arnold", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.", "AUTHOR": "Spalding Gray", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.", "AUTHOR": "John Millington Synge", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Bulfinch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lang", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Quigley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.", "AUTHOR": "Kjell Magne Bondevik", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.", "AUTHOR": "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Goodkind", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sparks", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Rodriguez", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cumming", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Fine art is knowledge made visible.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Courbet", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Freeman", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Holliday", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara McClintock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.", "AUTHOR": "Freda Adler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.", "AUTHOR": "John Acton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bowen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.", "AUTHOR": "David Ben-Gurion", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.", "AUTHOR": "William John Wills", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Jaspers", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dudley Warner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Yeager", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Olivier", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.", "AUTHOR": "John Sergeant Wise", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Mantegna", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Blix", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Geertz", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.", "AUTHOR": "Rocco DiSpirito", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Alban Berg", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.", "AUTHOR": "Meghan O'Rourke", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Sabol", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.", "AUTHOR": "James Prescott Joule", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Kyl", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'", "AUTHOR": "Gina Carano", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.", "AUTHOR": "Townsend Harris", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "B. H. Liddell Hart", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Comte", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nesmith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Baumgartner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Bums", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.", "AUTHOR": "Duane G. Carey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Coyle Bradley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Miller", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?", "AUTHOR": "Zebulon Pike", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.", "AUTHOR": "Bill James", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Enrico Fermi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Simpson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Mountbatten", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Seymour Papert", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.", "AUTHOR": "Cobi Jones", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Geithner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Malthus", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Godin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Hill", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Hodge", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.", "AUTHOR": "Zooey Deschanel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Sanger", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Jenkinson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.", "AUTHOR": "James Northcote", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Myracle", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmar Gabriel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Garrett", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Potter", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.", "AUTHOR": "John Cale", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fonda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.", "AUTHOR": "Big Boi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Moore", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Redmayne", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Loder", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Bloom", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.", "AUTHOR": "David Hare", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.", "AUTHOR": "Avicenna", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.", "AUTHOR": "Corliss Lamont", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan Robinson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Spassky", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Richardson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Karel Capek", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Szent-Gyorgyi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Monk", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Mayhew", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Mayhew", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.", "AUTHOR": "Josiah Royce", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Watzlawick", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Shahn", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Story", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.", "AUTHOR": "Alonzo Mourning", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelton Reed", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Machen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.", "AUTHOR": "Albrecht Durer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Porter", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Wright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Jaspers", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Barthes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Russell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Edgerton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Brodkey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Leakey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Tucker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Spillane", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.", "AUTHOR": "John Olver", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Scheer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Bell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Mach", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.", "AUTHOR": "John Warnock", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.", "AUTHOR": "George Boole", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.", "AUTHOR": "Nils-Axel Morner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.", "AUTHOR": "Yoshihiko Noda", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.", "AUTHOR": "David Amram", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Amram", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Gardner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.", "AUTHOR": "Origen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Reich", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dundes", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Cudworth", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.", "AUTHOR": "Abbott L. Lowell", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Luc Montagnier", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.", "AUTHOR": "James Meade", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Dilthey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Waldman", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Veeck", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.", "AUTHOR": "Abdullah Ibrahim", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ike Skelton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Greenleaf", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Polanyi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.", "AUTHOR": "Trofim Lysenko", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.", "AUTHOR": "Trofim Lysenko", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.", "AUTHOR": "Trofim Lysenko", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.", "AUTHOR": "John Bright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.", "AUTHOR": "Susanne Langer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Rory Bremner", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Boas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "John Tyndall", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Picabia", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.", "AUTHOR": "John Redwood", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Thomas Walker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Martineau", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gilbert", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gilbert", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is never too dear.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Walsingham", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.", "AUTHOR": "Asa Gray", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.", "AUTHOR": "Robert D. Kaplan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.", "AUTHOR": "William Holden", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Spellings", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Augusta Ward", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Soddy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Soddy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Sutter", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Packer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ramsey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.", "AUTHOR": "Ayumi Hamasaki", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.", "AUTHOR": "Arto Lindsay", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.", "AUTHOR": "Jurgen Klinsmann", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kanaly", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Quaid", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.", "AUTHOR": "Cheech Marin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Horsley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.", "AUTHOR": "Fannie Farmer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Esperanza Spalding", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Dimbleby", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Bulfinch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Bulfinch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Howe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Cole", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Lyotard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.", "AUTHOR": "William Kirby", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Smith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Toshihiko Fukui", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Spinks", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Chess is not only knowledge and logic.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Alekhine", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.", "AUTHOR": "Cybill Shepherd", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Wright", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Serrano", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.", "AUTHOR": "John Bates Clark", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Davis", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.", "AUTHOR": "Klaus Fuchs", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Romer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Nielsen", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.", "AUTHOR": "David Deutsch", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Jouhaux", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.", "AUTHOR": "Abdallah II", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Clark", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Savage", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Hanson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Griffith", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Breasted", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Sanger", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Sanger", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Joseph Lodge", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Hargrave", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James Sumner Maine", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Kane", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Farmer", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "William Bligh", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Shays", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Broun", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.", "AUTHOR": "Aly Khan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.", "AUTHOR": "Italo Calvino", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Turow", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Roberts", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.", "AUTHOR": "Dusty Baker", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Druyan", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Brendon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Bono", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard De Nerval", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Isakson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Natalia Makarova", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.", "AUTHOR": "John George Nicolay", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Blunt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.", "AUTHOR": "Geoff Hoon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Baldwin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Baldwin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Imre Lakatos", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.", "AUTHOR": "John Jewel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.", "AUTHOR": "John Jewel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.", "AUTHOR": "John Jewel", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Villard", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?", "AUTHOR": "Louis Aragon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.", "AUTHOR": "Caitlin Rose", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Lavin", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Stone", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Mike DeWine", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Hook", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.", "AUTHOR": "Van Wyck Brooks", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Cleave", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?", "AUTHOR": "Humphry Davy", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Sherman", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bacon", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Morris", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Hamilton", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Orr", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Curie", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Douglas", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Collier", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.", "AUTHOR": "Giambattista Valli", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.", "AUTHOR": "Rex Hunt", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Emerson", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.", "AUTHOR": "Virchand Gandhi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.", "AUTHOR": "David K. Shipler", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.", "AUTHOR": "James Beattie", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.", "AUTHOR": "Virchand Gandhi", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.", "AUTHOR": "Cedric Richmond", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Richards", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.", "AUTHOR": "Vijay Singh", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Kerrey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.", "AUTHOR": "Laurent Lamothe", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Akaka", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.", "AUTHOR": "David Krumholtz", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "What is research but a blind date with knowledge?", "AUTHOR": "Will Harvey", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Clinton Van Doren", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.", "AUTHOR": "George Andrew Olah", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cowley", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Salisbury", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Fish", "GENRE": "knowledge" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't find fault, find a remedy.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lucado", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.", "AUTHOR": "J. P. Morgan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The cautious seldom err.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is a dealer in hope.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to think anyway, so why not think big?", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Walton", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Example is leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "High expectations are the key to everything.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Walton", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bradley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is influence.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.", "AUTHOR": "David Joseph Schwartz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Go as far as you can see when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.", "AUTHOR": "J. P. Morgan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Tanner", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Bushnell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In fair weather prepare for foul.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hopkins", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.", "AUTHOR": "Roy E. Disney", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Clarity affords focus.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Leonard", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.", "AUTHOR": "David Joseph Schwartz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders grasp nettles.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You're only as good as the people you hire.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Get the best people and train them well.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McNealy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Every silver lining has a cloud.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Good enough never is.", "AUTHOR": "Debbi Fields", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong convictions precede great actions.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "What helps people, helps business.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Henry J. Kaiser", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "An Wang", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever ought to be, can be.", "AUTHOR": "James Rouse", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Falls", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Olsen", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "William Julius Wilson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.", "AUTHOR": "Mwai Kibaki", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Marcos", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Landry", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis H. Lapham", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Landry", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Character matters leadership descends from character.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Perdue", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.", "AUTHOR": "Isaiah Thomas", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Blanchard", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Yousef Munayyer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership does not depend on being right.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Scargill", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Nooyi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?", "AUTHOR": "Max de Pree", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Faye Wattleton", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Dobson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is an ever-evolving position.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is about being a servant first.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Martin McGuinness", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.", "AUTHOR": "John Naisbitt", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.", "AUTHOR": "Ingvar Kamprad", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the mother of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.", "AUTHOR": "James Forrestal", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.", "AUTHOR": "William Pollard", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of communication is the language of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Humes", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Hoekstra", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.", "AUTHOR": "T. Boone Pickens", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Hesburgh", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.", "AUTHOR": "James Humes", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Houston", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Feller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.", "AUTHOR": "Mangosuthu Buthelezi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer M. Granholm", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Campbell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.", "AUTHOR": "Kamala Harris", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.", "AUTHOR": "Kamala Harris", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Autry", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership and you're part of that leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Don Nickles", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.", "AUTHOR": "James MacGregor Burns", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Anderson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.", "AUTHOR": "John Abizaid", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Anne M. Mulcahy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.", "AUTHOR": "Anne M. Mulcahy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Daschle", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas E. Mann", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Humes", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.", "AUTHOR": "John Grierson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In this nation, leadership is dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Clark", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.", "AUTHOR": "Peter King", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Peter King", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.", "AUTHOR": "Peter King", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Hearst", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Yahoo Serious", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Serrano", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Campbell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Cantwell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.", "AUTHOR": "C. L. R. James", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Reines", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Donald", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is something I was born with.", "AUTHOR": "Carmelo Anthony", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tsongas", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Foxx", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente del Bosque", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Hagel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Patten", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ehrlich", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'", "AUTHOR": "Rob Portman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Artur Davis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Artur Davis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Burgess", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Burgess", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.", "AUTHOR": "Fredrik Bajer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gaffney", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Moore", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Erskine Bowles", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Bishop", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Keating", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ackerman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Different times need different types of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Park Geun-hye", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Menino", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Kain", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Wamp", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.", "AUTHOR": "Marty Meehan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Robert. L. Ehrlich", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is an active role 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Coble", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Scheuer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.", "AUTHOR": "John Olver", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brown", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.", "AUTHOR": "Zhang Ziyi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.", "AUTHOR": "Sherrod Brown", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.", "AUTHOR": "Sherrod Brown", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.", "AUTHOR": "Sherrod Brown", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Burns", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Evans", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "James Stockdale", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.", "AUTHOR": "W. Averell Harriman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Autry", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership demands that we make tough choices.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Autry", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Larsen", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.", "AUTHOR": "Pete du Pont", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need leadership, and we need it now.", "AUTHOR": "Byron Dorgan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Iger", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Iger", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Hertzfeld", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lieberman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rollins", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Rendell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Ron D. Burton", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.", "AUTHOR": "Li Peng", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Maude", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.", "AUTHOR": "Russel Honore", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.", "AUTHOR": "Russel Honore", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.", "AUTHOR": "John Sherman Cooper", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Young Jeezy", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Coburn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Tauscher", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.", "AUTHOR": "Horst Koehler", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wynn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Stewart", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Shamir", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Mehlman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalyn S. Yalow", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Stiles", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schaffer", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "People look for their leadership to lead.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Cornett", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Peer Steinbruck", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Edison", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cooper", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically they grow exponentially.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Nooyi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Massa", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Massa", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Kearns Goodwin", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.", "AUTHOR": "John P. Kotter", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.", "AUTHOR": "Preet Bharara", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Diaz-Balart", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.", "AUTHOR": "Nguyen Cao Ky", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Bonilla", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Sheehan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Sheehan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Cardoza", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Cardoza", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Helle Thorning-Schmidt", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Leach", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Williams", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bergdahl", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Morial", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Herman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Dalton McGuinty", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Greatbatch", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Stern", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Zundel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Noem", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.", "AUTHOR": "Peter MacKay", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Russell Mead", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.", "AUTHOR": "Tulsi Gabbard", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Domenici", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.", "AUTHOR": "Mike DeWine", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.", "AUTHOR": "E. P. Thompson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Miller", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Inouye", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Barbour", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gerstner", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Vester", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.", "AUTHOR": "John Garamendi", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Monroe", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'", "AUTHOR": "Theo James", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bingaman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.", "AUTHOR": "Martin O'Malley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.", "AUTHOR": "Cofer Black", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Jordan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Semel", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Morrison", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Pace", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Pace", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Harman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Harman", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cuellar", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Smith", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Smith", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchanan", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Murkowski", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Daines", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Kamla Persad-Bissessar", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.", "AUTHOR": "Yingluck Shinawatra", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.", "AUTHOR": "Janos Kadar", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Clark", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth J. Simmons", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Shinseki", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Browder", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Olympia Snowe", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.", "AUTHOR": "John Patrick", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Gerstner", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Oxley", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Daley Thompson", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ridge", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Pascrell", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Case", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Heck", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.", "AUTHOR": "Franz von Papen", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James MacGregor Burns", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Grimes", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.", "AUTHOR": "John Raleigh Mott", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.", "AUTHOR": "John Raleigh Mott", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Borg", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Kyl", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.", "AUTHOR": "Atifete Jahjaga", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.", "AUTHOR": "Vance Packard", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Donnelly", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Chernin", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.", "AUTHOR": "Kgalema Motlanthe", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.", "AUTHOR": "David Vitter", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.", "AUTHOR": "Iveta Radicova", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Etheridge", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Hultgren", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.", "AUTHOR": "Jakaya Kikwete", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Wills", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Wills", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Falls", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.", "AUTHOR": "Cristina Kirchner", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Landry", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Bennis", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Irving Barnard", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership must be established from the top down.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Nunn", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Hitler", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Gennaro Angiulo", "GENRE": "leadership" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot open a book without learning something.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I learned I learned from the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never learned from a man who agreed with me.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned the value of hard work by working hard.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You teach best what you most need to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Astaire", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning never exhausts the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am still learning.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.", "AUTHOR": "Miyamoto Musashi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In youth we learn in age we understand.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Watts", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the end result of all true learning.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.", "AUTHOR": "Tad Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I would fain grow old learning many things.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is learning what to overlook.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am through learning, I am through.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you live, keep learning how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Antisthenes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Rogers", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is finding out what you already know.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.", "AUTHOR": "King Solomon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "William Pollard", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Much learning does not teach understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Miller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Barnes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of polite learning and a liberal education.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Friedrich Gauss", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Smith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You aren't learning anything when you're talking.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is its own exceeding great reward.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.", "AUTHOR": "B. B. King", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Gish", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Keen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.", "AUTHOR": "Antisthenes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you're working and learning until you die.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Chantal Kreviazuk", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Carpenter", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.", "AUTHOR": "Ellsworth Huntington", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.", "AUTHOR": "Ritchie Blackmore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Grassley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "This life is a process of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "James S. Coleman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.", "AUTHOR": "Eliphas Levi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Faber", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Koestler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Frith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Crosby", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.", "AUTHOR": "B. B. King", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?", "AUTHOR": "Max de Pree", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love learning new techniques.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Lee Runbeck", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.", "AUTHOR": "Kwame Nkrumah", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.", "AUTHOR": "John McEnroe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.", "AUTHOR": "Carl T. Rowan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Defoe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Derek", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Producing is just a big learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.", "AUTHOR": "John Holt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My life path has been a blessing and a great learning experience. Skateboarding is my passion and I don't see that changing. When I'm not skating, I love to surf. I'm open to the new experiences and opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Sheckler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Horne", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is to this day, as you never stop learning about them.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Gardner", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Books have led some to learning and others to madness.", "AUTHOR": "Petrarch", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!", "AUTHOR": "Anna Neagle", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Henri Fabre", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.", "AUTHOR": "David Beckham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I grow old learning something new every day.", "AUTHOR": "Solon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph P. Kennedy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Rohm", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Ive", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Vizinczey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen White", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching is the royal road to learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.", "AUTHOR": "Joy Page", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Denise Brown", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Haim", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.", "AUTHOR": "Flora Lewis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Eccleston", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Duane G. Carey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to relive again on life's terms sure doesn't do much for your confidence. You have to kind of walk in faith that the next step is going to be just a little bit better than the last step.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.", "AUTHOR": "Glenda Jackson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gascoigne", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is about learning when you stop learning, you die.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You keep learning all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Collins", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.", "AUTHOR": "John Gray", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Flanigan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Irwin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Knight", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.", "AUTHOR": "Nan Fairbrother", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Steinberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Wallace", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a manicure, getting my hair done, and even while driving if I only look at the score at red lights.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain I've been working since I got to LA. But it is hard. I have no training as an actress so I try whatever I do like school, because I'm learning.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Vergara", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.", "AUTHOR": "Ellsworth Huntington", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the teaching, it's the learning.", "AUTHOR": "Sly Stone", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.", "AUTHOR": "John Selden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.", "AUTHOR": "John Hartford", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.", "AUTHOR": "Geddy Lee", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids.", "AUTHOR": "Carre Otis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Waltari", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Abrams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalyn S. Yalow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.", "AUTHOR": "Richard King", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Mountbatten", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Nooyi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else it's to do with me.", "AUTHOR": "Boy George", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Schenker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Bancroft", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rich", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.", "AUTHOR": "William Godwin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Holliday", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Taylor", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Burns", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.", "AUTHOR": "Dar Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Agassi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Mirren", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Kasparov", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.", "AUTHOR": "Marlen Esparza", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Cisneros", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Pinker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you desire ease, forsake learning.", "AUTHOR": "Nagarjuna", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship.", "AUTHOR": "Michael W. Smith", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Manfred von Richthofen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still learning my craft.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hyman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Fassbender", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Hendricks", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Jones", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Jones", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.", "AUTHOR": "John Naisbitt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Tartt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.", "AUTHOR": "Beck", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.", "AUTHOR": "John Sexton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Winter", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Wallach", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.", "AUTHOR": "Freida Pinto", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Sienkiewicz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.", "AUTHOR": "John Morley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.", "AUTHOR": "James Weldon Johnson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Crouch", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Ushkowitz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Siobhan Davies", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Vega", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Daldry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Geri Halliwell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Dunn", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "James Spader", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Oliphant", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Koller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The learning process continues until the day you die.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Douglas", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Edwards", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Rodriguez", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The failures and successes are necessary for learning.", "AUTHOR": "Wynonna Judd", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Wayne Callies", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Wayne Callies", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Chastain", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Jordan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Weymouth", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Lucas", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Koenig", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Benigni", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Araya", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Carr", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Hirsch", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Daly", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Rhys Meyers", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.", "AUTHOR": "Harold H. Greene", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.", "AUTHOR": "James Iha", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Pincus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bubba Watson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Carlton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ajay Naidu", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.", "AUTHOR": "John Deacon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.", "AUTHOR": "William Pollard", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Roeg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You only stop learning when you quit.", "AUTHOR": "Ruud Gullit", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Buckingham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never stopped learning.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Taylor", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Hanna", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Hampton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Ennis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kane", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Hoff", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.", "AUTHOR": "Solon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.", "AUTHOR": "Yao Ming", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Olasky", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hailey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.", "AUTHOR": "John Carpenter", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.", "AUTHOR": "Morris West", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Collier", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.", "AUTHOR": "Alva Myrdal", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Parker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Baden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.", "AUTHOR": "John Milius", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Michael Hall", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Frankenthaler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.", "AUTHOR": "Kent McCord", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.", "AUTHOR": "Ryne Sandberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stiglitz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Fullerton Gerould", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Ferguson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Menino", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.", "AUTHOR": "Oren Peli", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "A basic rule of life for reporters is that you should spend your time talking with and learning about people who are not sending you press releases, rather than those who are.", "AUTHOR": "James Fallows", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Panettiere", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Panettiere", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'", "AUTHOR": "Rian Johnson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to learn and keep learning.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Scott-Heron", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Cilento", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Budge", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a learning quality in all of our shows.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Goddard", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.", "AUTHOR": "David R. Ellis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.", "AUTHOR": "Meshell Ndegeocello", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Kidder", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Moreau", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Nagin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Parker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Joan Hart", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning something new is fun.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Trebek", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Jonze", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.", "AUTHOR": "Masaharu Morimoto", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby McFerrin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Icaza", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Roddick", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Demme", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Schaap", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.", "AUTHOR": "Rocco DiSpirito", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Weil", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Negroponte", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.", "AUTHOR": "Sanaa Lathan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.", "AUTHOR": "Mstislav Rostropovich", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.", "AUTHOR": "Wilford Brimley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Peters", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Jowett", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Crowe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy learning technical details.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Follett", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Law", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Watt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cahan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Fisher", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Friel", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.", "AUTHOR": "Ted W. Engstrom", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Sherman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout in the galley you're cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.", "AUTHOR": "Diahann Carroll", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I'm always learning something.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Winslet", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Adams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harrison", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Ebbinghaus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Thornberry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Brown", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Brown", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Moyer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.", "AUTHOR": "Brie Larson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.", "AUTHOR": "Brie Larson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Buble", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.", "AUTHOR": "David Selby", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.", "AUTHOR": "Philippe Perrin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.", "AUTHOR": "William Allingham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jane", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.", "AUTHOR": "Elliot Richardson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Dunham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Lo", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Trip Hawkins", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Blount, Jr.", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Ward", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Barks", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Joel Osment", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?", "AUTHOR": "John Ensign", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.", "AUTHOR": "Wale", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Merton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gilbert", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Walker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Allin Cornell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.", "AUTHOR": "Andie MacDowell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Hu", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Bubba Sparxxx", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Medieval learning was really advanced.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Jones", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Koryta", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.", "AUTHOR": "Chaske Spencer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Campbell Bower", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Davis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Blair", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Plato", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Godwin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Garcia", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.", "AUTHOR": "T-Bone Burnett", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Le Saux", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Udall", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Ritts", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Ritts", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.", "AUTHOR": "David Knopfler", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.", "AUTHOR": "Esperanza Spalding", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Nashe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Cornett", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Buzan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Cousins", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.", "AUTHOR": "Lloyd Alexander", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lowe", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Simpson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Chbosky", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.", "AUTHOR": "Dannii Minogue", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Stojko", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Henderson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.", "AUTHOR": "Art Garfunkel", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.", "AUTHOR": "Peter R. Grant", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Hall", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Lovett", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Kearns Goodwin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.", "AUTHOR": "Percival Lowell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lewis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book you just tell the best story you know how to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Danziger", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald McLeish", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Cockburn", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.", "AUTHOR": "Micky Dolenz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Stills", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Troy Vincent", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.", "AUTHOR": "Beverley Mitchell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Gray", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Close", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Romer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.", "AUTHOR": "Kiri Te Kanawa", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Kiri Te Kanawa", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.", "AUTHOR": "Estella Warren", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.", "AUTHOR": "James Blake", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Thompson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In any of the arts, you never stop learning.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Bloom", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bley", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Roberts", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Braugher", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.", "AUTHOR": "John Otto", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.", "AUTHOR": "Brendon Burchard", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Chow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Chow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin McKidd", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.", "AUTHOR": "Sutton Foster", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Peyroux", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Lamb", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Wayne Callies", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Henstridge", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Neagle", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Don Mattingly", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.", "AUTHOR": "Chiaki Kuriyama", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Farmer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.", "AUTHOR": "James Cronin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.", "AUTHOR": "Koichi Tanaka", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Kirshner", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Turow", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Cleo Moore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.", "AUTHOR": "Dusty Baker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Sudeikis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.", "AUTHOR": "Andres Iniesta", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Parsons", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Solti", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.", "AUTHOR": "Jessye Norman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Price", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Mariano", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Norton Juster", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.", "AUTHOR": "Cary Elwes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Snider", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Burton", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Rell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.", "AUTHOR": "Chick Corea", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.", "AUTHOR": "Ginni Rometty", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Durance", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Hart", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Kensit", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Rash", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Lavin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?", "AUTHOR": "John Rowland", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.", "AUTHOR": "Lori Greiner", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Dean Morgan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Wormald", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.", "AUTHOR": "Tyne Daly", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning starts with failure the first failure is the beginning of education.", "AUTHOR": "John Hersey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Vester", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Watson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday I'm learning so much from her.", "AUTHOR": "Joanne Woodward", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.", "AUTHOR": "Santigold", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Dost", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'", "AUTHOR": "Theo James", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning lines is my biggest challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Meadows", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Carter", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief gets in the way of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Collier", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Lopez", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Hunt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Wheldon", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Hornsby", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Deidre Hall", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Segall", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.", "AUTHOR": "David James Elliott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Ronstadt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Davies", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Clinton Van Doren", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.", "AUTHOR": "James Tobin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Diabetes is a disease that's had a deep impact on my family. My little brother has had type 1 diabetes since he was a baby and I have spent time learning about the disease and trying to bring attention to it so that one day soon we will reach a cure.", "AUTHOR": "Izabel Goulart", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ormond", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuel Lewis", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.", "AUTHOR": "William Labov", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is a learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Angus T. Jones", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Rathbone", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.", "AUTHOR": "Tarja Halonen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Gilbert", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Hugo", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.", "AUTHOR": "S. J. Perelman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Mottola", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "George Nethercutt", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Moore", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.", "AUTHOR": "Simon van der Meer", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.", "AUTHOR": "Traci Bingham", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Levi", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.", "AUTHOR": "William Scott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.", "AUTHOR": "Georgie Fame", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.", "AUTHOR": "Hal David", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Yuh Nelson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Burns", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Cooper", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Davidson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.", "AUTHOR": "Candice S. Miller", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Stuhlbarg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.", "AUTHOR": "Ari Graynor", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carper", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Low", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.", "AUTHOR": "William Green", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Durie", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Mars", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Spall", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.", "AUTHOR": "Jaime King", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.", "AUTHOR": "Jaime King", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.", "AUTHOR": "Frankie Muniz", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Weber", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Rokita", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!", "AUTHOR": "John Davidson", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Cardellini", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Elizabeth Winstead", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.", "AUTHOR": "Jhene Aiko", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep learning. It keeps you young.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Berg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Rutan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Healey", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Foote", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to keep learning.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Kinberg", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Speakes", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.", "AUTHOR": "Duffy", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.", "AUTHOR": "John Hope Franklin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Drew", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Allen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Haywood", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Terry", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Flavius Josephus", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Goodman", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.", "AUTHOR": "Gates McFadden", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Humphrey Carpenter", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Williams", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Martin", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Ford", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.", "AUTHOR": "Lucretia Mott", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Cocker", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Longhurst", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.", "AUTHOR": "Lloyd Bentsen", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.", "AUTHOR": "William Allan", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Leach", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.", "AUTHOR": "Fabrice Luchini", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald Wavell", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Conway", "GENRE": "learning" }, { "QUOTE": "I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The more laws, the less justice.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In law, nothing is certain but the expense.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is legalized lying.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with law is lawyers.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice delayed is justice denied.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is legal because I wish it.", "AUTHOR": "Louis XIV", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't learn everything you need to know legally.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver North", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.", "AUTHOR": "Addison Mizner", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Misery is the company of lawsuits.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Ralph Augustine", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Darden", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A good lawyer is a bad Christian.", "AUTHOR": "John Lothrop Motley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "Addison Mizner", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Darden", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Allston", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.", "AUTHOR": "Max Walker", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin Rossdale", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Reno", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The good lawyer is the great salesman.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Reno", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.", "AUTHOR": "James E. Rogers", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Hill", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Hill", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.", "AUTHOR": "Don Henley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Frankfurter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Alan Sekulow", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Alan Sekulow", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Glazer", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.", "AUTHOR": "Sol Wachtler", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.", "AUTHOR": "Potter Stewart", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Williams", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Charles W. Pickering", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.", "AUTHOR": "Johnnie Cochran", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hislop", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Waterston", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Baer", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Alito", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.", "AUTHOR": "William Dunbar", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bennett Williams", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Roberts Rinehart", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Halifax", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.", "AUTHOR": "John Harington", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.", "AUTHOR": "James Patrick Murray", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrd", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Assange", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Romeo LeBlanc", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Demme", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Hassan Nasrallah", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe abortion should be legal.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Bond", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Bastiat", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Reynolds", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.", "AUTHOR": "Aly Khan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Croly", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Brown", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.", "AUTHOR": "Penn Jillette", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Assange", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Johnson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.", "AUTHOR": "Preston Manning", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Banks", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mueller", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Rugova", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "George Segal", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Shorter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Cushing", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Cleary", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Goode", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Rickitt", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lieberman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.", "AUTHOR": "J. William Fulbright", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Holder", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gillmor", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Kagan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Pierre Raffarin", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Hill", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.", "AUTHOR": "Kit Bond", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ricoeur", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.", "AUTHOR": "Jordana Brewster", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.", "AUTHOR": "Harold H. Greene", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Foxx", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Akin", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the creative work produced by humans anywhere, a tiny fraction has continuing commercial value. For that tiny fraction, the copyright is a crucially important legal device.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Lessig", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.", "AUTHOR": "Anatoly Chubais", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Gibb", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Bawden", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Grassley", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Herer", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Corzine", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Coyne", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Clarke", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Hayworth", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's create a legal system that can work.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Brownback", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Dash", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Bugliosi", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Bugliosi", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Sterling", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.", "AUTHOR": "Elton Gallegly", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Elton Gallegly", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.", "AUTHOR": "John Yoo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.", "AUTHOR": "John Yoo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.", "AUTHOR": "John Yoo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.", "AUTHOR": "John Yoo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Bushnell Hart", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Wamp", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.", "AUTHOR": "John Linder", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.", "AUTHOR": "Cass Sunstein", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Maria Aznar", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Tancredo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Tancredo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Tancredo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.", "AUTHOR": "David Eagleman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.", "AUTHOR": "Val Kilmer", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.", "AUTHOR": "J. M. Coetzee", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.", "AUTHOR": "Li Peng", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people that should vote should be legal.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Bondi", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Scottoline", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Scottoline", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?", "AUTHOR": "Elliot Richardson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Frank", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Frank", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Frank", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Navalny", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lamm", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Rendell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Wilson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I support legal immigration.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Wilson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes and yet she will be woman still.", "AUTHOR": "Ernestine Rose", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Kagan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Kagan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moriarty", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Wicker", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Wicker", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.", "AUTHOR": "Warren E. Burger", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.", "AUTHOR": "John Forbes Nash, Jr.", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Sandoval", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.", "AUTHOR": "Jan de Bont", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Serrano", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ek", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ek", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bremer", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.", "AUTHOR": "Michael McCaul", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Greenwood", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Brown", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Durbin", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Cantwell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Felten", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Bashir", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Barton", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Frey", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Fujimori", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James Sumner Maine", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Korner", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Scott", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Scott", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.", "AUTHOR": "John Podesta", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.", "AUTHOR": "Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Turow", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Consuelos", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Johansen", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Serge Lang", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Bono", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Hunter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.", "AUTHOR": "Nursultan Nazarbayev", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Rowntree", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Trajkovski", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Carpenter", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Johnson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?", "AUTHOR": "Julie Chen", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Dash", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.", "AUTHOR": "John Garamendi", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to be discussing issues specifically to help the American people. And that would not include illegal aliens. These are people - I'm for immigration - legal immigration. I've been an immigration attorney. But people who have come to our country and violated laws, we should not be providing full health care services.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Wilson", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Peters", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Peters", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Sotos", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.", "AUTHOR": "William Landay", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Micah Marshall", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Coercion may prevent many transgressions but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Barletta", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore J. Cordileone", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore J. Cordileone", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Brooks", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Algren", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Madden", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.", "AUTHOR": "Yingluck Shinawatra", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.", "AUTHOR": "Louis de Bernieres", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Calvert", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.", "AUTHOR": "Lamar S. Smith", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Eshoo", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carper", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Dillon", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Carlo Azeglio Ciampi", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Anger", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Thomas", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Neas", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Tribe", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Little", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Rush", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.", "AUTHOR": "George Sutherland", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nighthorse Campbell", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.", "AUTHOR": "David Minge", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Keenan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Travers", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Ivanov", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Frick", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.", "AUTHOR": "Kilari Anand Paul", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Filan", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Abramoff", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Abramoff", "GENRE": "legal" }, { "QUOTE": "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.", "AUTHOR": "Sholom Aleichem", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Cary Grant", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Roosevelt Longworth", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man dies. Not every man really lives.", "AUTHOR": "William Wallace", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.", "AUTHOR": "Max de Pree", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't go through life, grow through life.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Butterworth", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Berlin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not length of life, but depth of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.", "AUTHOR": "Richard L. Evans", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Green", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My life is my message.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.", "AUTHOR": "William Morris", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who yearn for the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I love life because what more is there?", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life loves the liver of it.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not regret one moment of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life is what our thoughts make it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware the barrenness of a busy life.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has been figured out, except how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The only disability in life is a bad attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in life is luck.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Robinson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rubinstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "May you live all the days of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Ingelow", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.", "AUTHOR": "Seneca", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "People living deeply have no fear of death.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A well-spent day brings happy sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Horney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life in abundance comes only through great love.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.", "AUTHOR": "Grandma Moses", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "While there's life, there's hope.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a long lesson in humility.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is half spent before we know what it is.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life must be lived as play.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Unbeing dead isn't being alive.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of life is a life of purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest pleasure of life is love.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "While we are postponing, life speeds by.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is just one life for each of us: our own.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is never easy for those who dream.", "AUTHOR": "Robert James Waller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is too short to work so hard.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life well spent is long.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is wasted on the living.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Corita Kent", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no wealth but life.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is largely a matter of expectation.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not an exact science, it is an art.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.", "AUTHOR": "William Christopher Handy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula Andress", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is a failure who is enjoying life.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Leonard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To know nothing is the happiest life.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To be free is to have achieved your life.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is but thought.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life itself is the proper binge.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The less routine the more life.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cahan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What we play is life.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Armstrong", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Gill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has a higher end, than to be amused.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The person lives twice who lives the first life well.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Herrick", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.", "AUTHOR": "Karl A. Menninger", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Horney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.", "AUTHOR": "George Gershwin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no blood relatives till I made some.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Dick", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is love there is life.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Character develops itself in the stream of life.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Melody Beattie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Anderson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Without music, life would be a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Sweat", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Watts", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Smith", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Each person must live their life as a model for others.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Parks", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You change your life by changing your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lucado", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Friedrich Gauss", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hogan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Sidey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is either a great adventure or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid.", "AUTHOR": "John Wayne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is hard. After all, it kills you.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is more to life than increasing its speed.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Byrne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I bear a charmed life.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In married life three is company and two none.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.", "AUTHOR": "David Gerrold", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the strangest life I've ever known.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is just a record of one's whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Carr", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I need drama in my life to keep making music.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't know life, how can we know death?", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The energy of the mind is the essence of life.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are the anchors of a mother's life.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as there is life there is danger.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not fair get used to it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael LeBoeuf", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the proper task of life.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The unexamined life is not worth living.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to wake up every day and do whatever comes in my mind, and not feel pressure or obligations to do anything else in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.", "AUTHOR": "Wallis Simpson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams are necessary to life.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Thug Life to me is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Welling", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Landon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The lie is a condition of life.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Kodjoe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tournier", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Feller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.", "AUTHOR": "Ginger Rogers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.", "AUTHOR": "Veronica Lake", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Burton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.", "AUTHOR": "Emmy Rossum", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Mills", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality of life is more important than life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Khayyam", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Jackson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Summer Altice", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Gable", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Kenny", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Live the life you've dreamed.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.", "AUTHOR": "Joan of Arc", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the flower for which love is the honey.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Above our life we love a steadfast friend.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Children make your life important.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Satir", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Do every act of your life as if it were your last.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Berthold Auerbach", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.", "AUTHOR": "Rumi", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brooks", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Kennedy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What you get is a living, what you give is a life.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Gish", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.", "AUTHOR": "Keri Russell", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is just one damned thing after another.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Plath", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Hutton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Corr", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrd", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.", "AUTHOR": "Humphry Davy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.", "AUTHOR": "Al Lopez", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.", "AUTHOR": "Grandma Moses", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Patrick", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothea Lange", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. McLean", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is to be entered upon with courage.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Isak Dinesen", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In life you need either inspiration or desperation.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Sigourney Weaver", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is lived on the edge.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wagner", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Prather", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Burke", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Massey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the greatest refreshment in life.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia Lunch", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cochrane", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "life" }, { "QUOTE": "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is love there is life.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.", "AUTHOR": "A. A. Milne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Francis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Do all things with love.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Brooke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a better teacher than duty.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Lover", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The best proof of love is trust.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We loved with a love that was more than love.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A loving heart is the truest wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Javan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the flower you've got to let grow.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is clearer when you're in love.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who, being loved, is poor?", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a game that two can play and both win.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Gabor", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The giving of love is an education in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All mankind love a lover.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of love is largely the art of persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a friendship set to music.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no remedy for love but to love more.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be loved, be lovable.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the beauty of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not dominate it cultivates.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Only do what your heart tells you.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is being stupid together.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to know at what moment love begins it is less difficult to know that it has begun.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Pym", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When love is not madness, it is not love.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love we give away is the only love we keep.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love another person is to see the face of God.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.", "AUTHOR": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence - that common cure of love.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the flower for which love is the honey.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Be of love a little more careful than of anything.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is supreme and unconditional like is nice but limited.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.", "AUTHOR": "David Grayson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Dreiser", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a woman at the begining of all great things.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love knows not distance it hath no continent its eyes are for the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the greatest refreshment in life.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wished to be loved, love.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is my religion - I could die for it.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love shall be our token love be yours and love be mine.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "He is not a lover who does not love forever.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Foch", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose your love, Love your choice.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Campbell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.", "AUTHOR": "John Gay", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to know life is to love many things.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune and love favor the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Morgan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is suffering. One side always loves more.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is what you've been through with somebody.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love in its essence is spiritual fire.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There are never enough I Love You's.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Bruce", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is always being given where it is not required.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is Love without his wings!", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the poetry of the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Lorraine Hansberry", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Louise L. Hay", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In every living thing there is the desire for love.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For love is immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love conquers all.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Wynette", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.", "AUTHOR": "Gwendolyn Brooks", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Take away love and our earth is a tomb.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you have to have a reason for loving?", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Racine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Clifford Barney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the only gold.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.", "AUTHOR": "David Viscott", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Though lovers be lost love shall not.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Thomas", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.", "AUTHOR": "Zelda Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Segal", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no limit to the power of loving.", "AUTHOR": "John Morton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.", "AUTHOR": "Fulton J. Sheen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Holiday", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "More than kisses, letters mingle souls.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Wynette", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is metaphysical gravity.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who loves, raves.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "With our love, we could save the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To good and true love fear is forever affixed.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately love is everything.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Erhard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very easy to love alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who so loves believes the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rimbaud", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.", "AUTHOR": "Aphra Behn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We can only learn to love by loving.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We are most alive when we're in love.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.", "AUTHOR": "Torquato Tasso", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In love there are two things - bodies and words.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is love's reward.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "But love's a malady without a cure.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.", "AUTHOR": "Boethius", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is blind.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia M. Child", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Beaumont", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a hole in the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hecht", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hecht", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One must not trifle with love.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Musset", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All love is lost but upon God alone.", "AUTHOR": "William Dunbar", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love beauty is to see light.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.", "AUTHOR": "David Frost", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If music be the food of love, play on.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Sweat", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't blame gravity for falling in love.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours if they don't they never were.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Intense love does not measure, it just gives.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Chabrol", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The course of true love never did run smooth.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of only one duty, and that is to love.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is the final form of love.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Hesburgh", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of love is to listen.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Smith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Evans", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a serious mental disease.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who yearn for the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love life because what more is there?", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?", "AUTHOR": "Fulton J. Sheen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is love and light and vision.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't command our love, but we can our actions.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak low, if you speak love.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.", "AUTHOR": "Ricardo Montalban", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The best smell in the world is that man that you love.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is too young to know what conscience is.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect is what we owe love, what we give.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where love is, there God is also.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need is love.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.", "AUTHOR": "George Chakiris", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred is blind, as well as love.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of heaven makes one heavenly.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love cannot save you from your own fate.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "They do not love that do not show their love.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Those whom the gods love grow young.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Byrne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is trembling happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One is very crazy when in love.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Britten", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rubinstein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of a great love, one is courageous.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Morgan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a natural look in pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who do not know how to live for today.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not consolation. It is light.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Basil", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.", "AUTHOR": "Basil Hume", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no sincerer love than the love of food.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Haniel Long", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Life in abundance comes only through great love.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is most unwise for people in love to marry.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.", "AUTHOR": "Rumi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of economy is the root of all virtue.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Franks", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.", "AUTHOR": "Ednita Nazario", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't forget to love yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.", "AUTHOR": "Tad Williams", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If I love you, what business is it of yours?", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is great love, there are always wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. McLean", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Segal", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not raising children with the love that we need to.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to love and to be wise.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.", "AUTHOR": "Farrah Fawcett", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hopkins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Idol", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Look your best - who said love is blind?", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest pleasure of life is love.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that's the America millions of Americans believe in. That's the America I love.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.", "AUTHOR": "Eden Ahbez", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Manin Morrissey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn French", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love stories never have endings.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Busey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Behold, my friends, the spring is come the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Hammerstein II", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.", "AUTHOR": "John Gray", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not judge the people we love.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Goldberg", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief is the price we pay for love.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "He that is jealous is not in love.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.", "AUTHOR": "Charles L. Allen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsten Dunst", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Winter", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Secretan", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing in the world is family and love.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.", "AUTHOR": "A. Whitney Brown", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Gerstner", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion is momentary love is enduring.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Louise Strong", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.", "AUTHOR": "Rumi", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you more than my own skin.", "AUTHOR": "Frida Kahlo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love can do much, but duty more.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.", "AUTHOR": "Bettie Page", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In art as in love, instinct is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.", "AUTHOR": "William Barclay", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hughes", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Brook", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Vicious", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Adultery is the application of democracy to love.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Fender", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.", "AUTHOR": "Esai Morales", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Above our life we love a steadfast friend.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilian Schell", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.", "AUTHOR": "Dogen", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Booth", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Maurice de Talleyrand", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "People everywhere love Windows.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.", "AUTHOR": "Pietro Aretino", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.", "AUTHOR": "Rip Torn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.", "AUTHOR": "Torquato Tasso", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to hit people. I love to.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is friendship set on fire.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck D.", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Holiday", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Gabor", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the river of life in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Kristofferson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.", "AUTHOR": "Mortimer Adler", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Rizal", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When people are lame, they love to blame.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.", "AUTHOR": "Kent Nerburn", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "We pardon to the extent that we love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "This love is silent.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "To love someone means to see him as God intended him.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Beaumarchais", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "love" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without.", "AUTHOR": "James C. Dobson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Schubert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If I get married, I want to be very married.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Boren", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Philip", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Guitry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mandrell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Guitry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.", "AUTHOR": "A. P. Herbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Cantor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Bagnold", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Hull", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Alan King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Murray", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is often the fruit of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Cantor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Simon", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get married, it'll be no secret.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Osmond", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I like getting married, but I don't like being married.", "AUTHOR": "Don Adams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!", "AUTHOR": "Patrice Leconte", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Mills", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Brenan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Grizzard", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Levenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gahagan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a mistake every man should make.", "AUTHOR": "George Jessel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.", "AUTHOR": "Alan King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Zeta-Jones", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Liebman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.", "AUTHOR": "George Jessel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.", "AUTHOR": "George Ade", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Curtis Chapman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.", "AUTHOR": "A. P. Herbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.", "AUTHOR": "Beverley Nichols", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an exercise in torture.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Conroy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.", "AUTHOR": "Antisthenes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.", "AUTHOR": "John Gay", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.", "AUTHOR": "Finley Peter Dunne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "One was never married, and that's his hell another is, and that's his plague.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I married beneath me, all women do.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Astor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.", "AUTHOR": "James Ellroy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Mowry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?", "AUTHOR": "Gary Becker", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Harrison", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bergin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Fiorentino", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "John Lyly", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rooney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Rendell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anderson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the death of hope.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a great institution.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Cartland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilian Schell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Armour", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Samuels", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?", "AUTHOR": "Ted Olson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Signoret", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I like marriage. The idea.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage changes everything.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Books and marriage go ill together.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Wright", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Chapman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Gaye", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the tomb of love.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Sherman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Enzi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.", "AUTHOR": "James Carville", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Benson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Francis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Green", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Martin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is socialism among two people.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is obsolete and a trap.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.", "AUTHOR": "Ava Gardner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Navjot Singh Sidhu", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Bellucci", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.", "AUTHOR": "Francoise Sagan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya Jackson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has just never interested me.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To me marriage is for five or ten years.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Victoria", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Wallis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Mailer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Cooper", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.", "AUTHOR": "John Selden", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is gonna be your stability through everything.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evans", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more afraid of marriage than death.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Samuel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was very big on marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm all for same-sex marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Theroux", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage equality changed life for people.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas William Jerrold", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William's marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. 'Wet' is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin'.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a religious and state issue.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is hard work, period.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Khayyam", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in traditional marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Victoria", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage... We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so easy to grow apart marriage takes work.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I'm built for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sumner Redstone", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Smith", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of respect for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "This marriage is no one's business but our own.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it's blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn't working can be painful.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "God invented concubinage, satan marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Picabia", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, there were major problems in my marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been wary of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond About", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think marriage is ghastly.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Collins", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Redgrave", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Redgrave", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Guitry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Gabor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Adie", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Elsa Maxwell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Eugenides", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes McCambridge", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Macphail", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.", "AUTHOR": "Millicent Carey McIntosh", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Holden", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanora Duse", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is like a formality for me.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I think marriage is a great thing.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Shenouda III", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being independent. I don't think that marriage means you're not independent, but right now I'm very comfortable, and I'm probably the happiest I've ever been. I feel solid. I feel safe.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis Bextor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.", "AUTHOR": "David Gest", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.", "AUTHOR": "Michele Bachmann", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Freeman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Stone", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Cruz", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I still believe in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Bruno", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "George Carey", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.", "AUTHOR": "Guy de Maupassant", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.", "AUTHOR": "Dora Russell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Garr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I'm not going to get married, but it's not my priority.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Heche", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?", "AUTHOR": "Angela Carter", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Martin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Penn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Nicolson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Grace", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.", "AUTHOR": "Sadie Frost", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lear", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Jhumpa Lahiri", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jhumpa Lahiri", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sade Adu", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.", "AUTHOR": "Les Dawson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Reynolds", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lachey", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.", "AUTHOR": "Linda McCartney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.", "AUTHOR": "Linda McCartney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Thorne Smith", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Same-sex marriage is not the future.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Stowe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage isn't a carnival ride.", "AUTHOR": "Aisha Tyler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Morgan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Scarborough", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely believe in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Strahan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Daly", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hampton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mckellen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to be able to work I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Akin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.", "AUTHOR": "Michele Bachmann", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.", "AUTHOR": "Michele Bachmann", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Haden Church", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical.", "AUTHOR": "David Limbaugh", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.", "AUTHOR": "James Denton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Bynes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Karl Pilkington", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really interested in thinking about marriage or kids at all.", "AUTHOR": "Stacy Keibler", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Stone", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Christie", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think gay marriage should be the national law.", "AUTHOR": "Rose McGowan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Margaret", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.", "AUTHOR": "Raquel Welch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Fischer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Watson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Kyra Sedgwick", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.", "AUTHOR": "Timbaland", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.", "AUTHOR": "Utada Hikaru", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.", "AUTHOR": "Kitty Kelley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Parsley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Feingold", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Brownback", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the sanctity of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Brownback", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Mattea", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'", "AUTHOR": "Jane Asher", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Skaggs", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.", "AUTHOR": "John Mahoney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Maples", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Maples", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Monk", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very intense marriage.", "AUTHOR": "James Ellroy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?", "AUTHOR": "Max Schmeling", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Sellecca", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Corrine Brown", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.", "AUTHOR": "Corrine Brown", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Talent", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Talent", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Elfman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Love Peacock", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadette Peters", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Julio Iglesias", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Begala", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ford", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cavendish", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Richard G. Scott", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Cass Sunstein", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Calvert", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are some people in life who are not marriage material and Chris is one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Gless", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Ryan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rooney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.", "AUTHOR": "David Steinberg", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.", "AUTHOR": "George Gobel", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.", "AUTHOR": "Masaharu Morimoto", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'", "AUTHOR": "Ali Larter", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Ekberg", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Coors", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Kyle", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Jason Leigh", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin MacLeod", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To us marriage is first, everything else is second.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Benz", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Autry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bissinger", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Lancaster", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Russel Wallace", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Helms", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Swaggart", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Rickitt", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Preston", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Griffiths", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kirkman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Garrett", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Rose", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.", "AUTHOR": "Erika Slezak", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shuster", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Lister-Jones", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Gilliam", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Adams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children marriage I have a bit of an issue with.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Brook", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Weissmuller", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Marisa Tomei", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Chapman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.", "AUTHOR": "David Thewlis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no useful theories about love and marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Cunningham", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.", "AUTHOR": "Menander", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Comaneci", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Johanson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Cheney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Cheney", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Brittain", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Helen Spence", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Rory Bremner", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kinsley", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Morris", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Morris", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Shocked", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Murphy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.", "AUTHOR": "Arsenio Hall", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.", "AUTHOR": "Arsenio Hall", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Williams", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Wilde", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Harris", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Valentine", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.", "AUTHOR": "Marge Piercy", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Martineau", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Mehlman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Nielsen", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Augusta Ward", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Augusta Ward", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bruni", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bruni", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Dalton Trumbo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Winwood", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Len Goodman", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Appleton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.", "AUTHOR": "L. Ron Hubbard", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Richards", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.", "AUTHOR": "Cheech Marin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Keyes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.", "AUTHOR": "Julie London", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moriarty", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.", "AUTHOR": "June Carter Cash", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Garret Dillahunt", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Wicker", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.", "AUTHOR": "Manny Pacquiao", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Nooyi", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Sisto", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Sisto", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Santiago", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Pierce", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nelson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Cornell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Heder", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "John Leguizamo", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.", "AUTHOR": "James Dobson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Kerry", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Johnson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Chabot", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Young", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Kingsbury", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ward Howe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Tripplehorn", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Brydon", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Moynahan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Wayans", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Britton", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.", "AUTHOR": "James Brolin", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Wright", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Consuelos", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bunning", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Olson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Olson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Sudeikis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Polis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCormack", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick White", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.", "AUTHOR": "John Sandford", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Criss", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Todd Jealous", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Foster Bennett", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Todd Jealous", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.", "AUTHOR": "Jayne Meadows", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Hannah", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie... you know, we didn't always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Evans", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Evans", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Tamae Watanabe", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth G. Wilson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Banda", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Kensit", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Storr", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ferguson", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Hagan", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Cantone", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Sessions", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Burrell", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Block", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Moore", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.", "AUTHOR": "Shonda Rhimes", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabetta Canalis", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rounds", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.", "AUTHOR": "Gavyn Davies", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Sliwa", "GENRE": "marriage" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "They certainly give very strange names to diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Doctors are just the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is generally the best doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Matthau", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett Hale", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Dizzy Dean", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Romero", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.", "AUTHOR": "Cass Canfield", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Landon", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Hahnemann", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Bagnold", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Edwards", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Ross", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shaffer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.", "AUTHOR": "John Ensign", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sydenham", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Mikulski", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.", "AUTHOR": "James H. Boren", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Chiu", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Cobb", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.", "AUTHOR": "Alice James", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.", "AUTHOR": "David Jones", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.", "AUTHOR": "Samora Machel", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Abe Lemons", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can't get medical care or clean water.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bach", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.", "AUTHOR": "Lois Capps", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Five thousand people every day lose their home because of a medical bankruptcy. Most of them had insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Feinstein", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Fraser", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight gain as if they're a medical professional that's treating that celebrity. Like, 'This doctor does not treat Jessica Simpson, but thinks her weight is unhealthy.' If you don't treat her, then how do you know?", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.", "AUTHOR": "David Axelrod", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.", "AUTHOR": "Potter Stewart", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?", "AUTHOR": "Garry Trudeau", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Allen", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Wallach", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.", "AUTHOR": "George Pataki", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Pataki", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Hanson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cooper", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Brenner", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.", "AUTHOR": "Cobi Jones", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.", "AUTHOR": "Nana Mouskouri", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Hill", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.", "AUTHOR": "David Gest", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Gerlach", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Gerlach", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.", "AUTHOR": "Bob McDonnell", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Chang", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the ones who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.", "AUTHOR": "Claire McCaskill", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Schakowsky", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Judd", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hamilton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Chiu", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Chiu", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Brown", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Diamandis", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Reichert", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Niven", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster.", "AUTHOR": "Otto Schily", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Dunn", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Wamp", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.", "AUTHOR": "Spencer Bachus", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Kelly", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Kelly", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical physics is an applied area of physics.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Buyer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Atkins", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.", "AUTHOR": "Jermaine Jackson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Coleman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ferguson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Stockett", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bissinger", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.", "AUTHOR": "John Templeton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Jay Lifton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Boswell", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Van Zandt", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Fleischmann", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Hollen", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.", "AUTHOR": "Linda M. Godwin", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.", "AUTHOR": "Ike Skelton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Tunney", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Lincoln Chafee", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Paz de la Huerta", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kinsley", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.", "AUTHOR": "Tom G. Palmer", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Murphy", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.", "AUTHOR": "John Backus", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Moses", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Stuart Masterson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Stuart Masterson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Stuart Masterson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Duran", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Hacker", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Wicker", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Garneau", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Perry", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Brenner", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Serrano", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Berg", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Irons", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Quayle", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Thompson Seton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Roybal-Allard", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.", "AUTHOR": "William Banting", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Steele", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Shays", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Shilton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Sanders", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.", "AUTHOR": "Tulsi Gabbard", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Barnard", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Hyland", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Strickland", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hamilton", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Brande Roderick", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Sayet", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Nathans", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Nathans", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Ose", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nelson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.", "AUTHOR": "Koo Stark", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Urich", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Lennart Nilsson", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Laurent Lamothe", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'", "AUTHOR": "Abe Lemons", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald F. Lieberman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Lawrence", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "After he was assassinated, his family and the men who had served him continued the lying and began the destruction, censoring and hiding of JFK's medical records.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Reeves", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive, even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Reeves", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kellerman", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Raikes", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.", "AUTHOR": "Christiaan Barnard", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Calvert", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.", "AUTHOR": "Tama Janowitz", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dooling", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Stevens", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Fluke", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Wilber", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Vilhelm Jensen", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?", "AUTHOR": "Peter Lewis Allen", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Lewis Allen", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Skloot", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.", "AUTHOR": "Les Aspin", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.", "AUTHOR": "Tabare Vazquez", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Haldan Keffer Hartline", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Joseph Arrow", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Sadoway", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.", "AUTHOR": "David M. Brown", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Alfred George Strong", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Griffin", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Vento", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lehmann-Haupt", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Principi", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Burgess", "GENRE": "medical" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's kiss is his signature.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are born to succeed, not to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Honor is simply the morality of superior men.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must know their limitations.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "By indignities men come to dignities.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There would be no great men if there were no little ones.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women have strengths that complement each other.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Rockne", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Circumstances rule men men do not rule circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should strive to think much and know little.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men often act knowingly against their interest.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The less men think, the more they talk.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "For tis not in mere death that men die most.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not fail they give up trying.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Whately", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always supported measures and principles and not men.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Time takes away the grief of men.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Chestnut", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Zhang Ziyi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Kempton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Thurman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are actually the weaker sex.", "AUTHOR": "George Weinberg", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lerner", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Miller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Burgess", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are not against you they are merely for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Fowler", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture makes all men gentle.", "AUTHOR": "Menander", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Haydon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Locklear", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Neutral men are the devil's allies.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Bassey", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Waller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No nice men are good at getting taxis.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Whitehorn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "AUTHOR": "George William Norris", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.", "AUTHOR": "Clifton Paul Fadiman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Schickel", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.", "AUTHOR": "T. E. Lawrence", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Force always attracts men of low morality.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are what their mothers made them.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women may fall when there's no strength in men.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "But men are men the best sometimes forget.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's vows are women's traitors!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men shut their doors against a setting sun.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men by nature desire knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe all men, thyself most.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad men are full of repentance.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nine men in ten are would be suicides.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Good men must not obey the laws too well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.", "AUTHOR": "Quintus Ennius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When women go wrong, men go right after them.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have become the tools of their tools.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Franks", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.", "AUTHOR": "Lorraine Hansberry", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are only as great as they are kind.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is not the worst that can happen to men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Boyd", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Auslander", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I like two types of men - domestic and foreign.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great hopes make great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.", "AUTHOR": "Charles V", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Norris Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are equal before fish.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All religions have been made by men.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All brave men love for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "These are the times that try men's souls.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The only really happy folk are married women and single men.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are only as loyal as their options.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men exist for the sake of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Marcil", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.", "AUTHOR": "Ali ibn Abi Talib", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Foss Westcott", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.", "AUTHOR": "Malcom X", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Pollock", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Lineker", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Rosenberg", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are not men and yet they stay alive.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.", "AUTHOR": "Blu Cantrell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.", "AUTHOR": "Francoise Sagan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Castaneda", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.", "AUTHOR": "Yousuf Karsh", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Gompers", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We are anthill men upon an anthill world.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "More men die of jealousy than of cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph P. Kennedy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Howard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A government of laws, and not of men.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Fenelon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Y. Napier", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.", "AUTHOR": "Miyamoto Musashi", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wright", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.", "AUTHOR": "Avicenna", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Schumann", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bouton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Clever men are good, but they are not the best.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.", "AUTHOR": "Junius", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming men are haunted men.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Vincent Benet", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'", "AUTHOR": "Les Dawson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are like the stars some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Cope", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.", "AUTHOR": "Abbe Pierre", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Le Corbusier", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Columbus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.", "AUTHOR": "David Livingstone", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.", "AUTHOR": "John Gray", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.", "AUTHOR": "William Lloyd Garrison", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Mailer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.", "AUTHOR": "Anaxagoras", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great things are done when men and mountains meet.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Sessions", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Erwin Wilson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Leach", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.", "AUTHOR": "Roald Dahl", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Burnham", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?", "AUTHOR": "Joan Baez", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men blaspheme what they do not know.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Produce great men, the rest follows.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.", "AUTHOR": "David Allan Coe", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.", "AUTHOR": "Guru Nanak", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men of action are dreamers.", "AUTHOR": "James Huneker", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst men often give the best advice.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.", "AUTHOR": "Cardinal Richelieu", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise men make more opportunities than they find.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot learn men from books.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Either war is obsolete, or men are.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.", "AUTHOR": "H. Allen Smith", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Whitton", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Bader", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.", "AUTHOR": "George Berkeley", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wagner", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Gaines", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Reasonable men adapt to the world around them unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Study men, not historians.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.", "AUTHOR": "Isaiah Berlin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "He had read much, if one considers his long life but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.", "AUTHOR": "Yul Brynner", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.", "AUTHOR": "Richard J. Needham", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.", "AUTHOR": "David Hilbert", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong women only marry weak men.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "The most positive men are the most credulous.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "men" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are what their mothers made them.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Wax", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Bright", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hoffman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.", "AUTHOR": "Maxim Gorky", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers are the necessity of invention.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.", "AUTHOR": "Al Sharpton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Madden", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.", "AUTHOR": "Della Reese", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am no mother, and I won't be one.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Elliot", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.", "AUTHOR": "Roma Downey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am truly my mother's son.", "AUTHOR": "David Geffen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.", "AUTHOR": "Milo Ventimiglia", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.", "AUTHOR": "Zhang Ziyi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Scott", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a cool mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.", "AUTHOR": "Claudette Colbert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Bradley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Reed", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.", "AUTHOR": "Buck Owens", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Partridge", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Fields", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.", "AUTHOR": "Art Linkletter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Keith", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.", "AUTHOR": "Al Lewis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Fisher", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Hudson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Appleton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.", "AUTHOR": "Larisa Oleynik", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Pierce", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brooks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.", "AUTHOR": "Cuba Gooding, Jr.", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters and my mom, those people help me get through every single day.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, \"Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I are very close.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "And to this day, my Mom is my role model.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was tough.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my love of journalizing my life comes from my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom wasn't a movie star.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Sixx", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Rosen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Alexa Vega", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.", "AUTHOR": "Fantasia Barrino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Morello", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom knows when something is real and something is not.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Algren", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be as healthy as I can because I'm a mom now.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lee", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom knows pretty well how I see her.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Peet", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm funny I'll go on trips with them - I'll do all sorts of stuff.' But the momming? I'm not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the racks. It was pretty cool I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like 'What did you do to yourself?' I was so embarrassed.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Holiday", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burns", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always says, 'If you don't believe in something, you'll lose yourself completely.'", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's superfun being a mom, but it's hard too.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it's the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it's the most sensitive. It's not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite - and typically they don't.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "From the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever witnessed. People keep saying, 'Oh, you're a single mom.' I'm like, 'Actually, I'm not. I've got two boys helping.'", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.", "AUTHOR": "David Ortiz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney King", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was paranoid about my safety.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember, my mom didn't have any help, so if she needed to be somewhere after school, we'd just go down to the neighbors' and she'd give us a snack and make sure we did our homework. There weren't any latchkey kids.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be a mom at 23, 24ish, ever since I was a little girl. I'm right on schedule.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.", "AUTHOR": "Brandy Norwood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hartnett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Banks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a loving mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a mom who listens.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I do envision just being a stay at home mom but not working isn't an option for me currently.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are days when I struggle with wanting to be a full-time, stay-at-home mom, and feeling guilty about that because I work.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne Zuniga", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mom makes me feel whole and like I understand the meaning of life.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is definitely my rock.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I am is because of my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Moynahan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a really hands-on mom.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Liebman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Wasikowska", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mom and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.", "AUTHOR": "Richard J. Codey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Brady", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer M. Granholm", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I slept with my mom until I was 16 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always been my mom and I against the world.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Home is where my mom is.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.", "AUTHOR": "Lorna Luft", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom obviously had a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Pelzer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.", "AUTHOR": "Emmy Rossum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun to play mom. Last I knew I was playing a 17-year-old who graduated.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Chastain", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a good mom is an awake mom. At least for me, I've always been a kinder, better person awake than sleep-deprived!", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "No, my mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Colbert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.", "AUTHOR": "Taraji P. Henson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's hot. I mean she's old, but my mom's out of control.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Bam Margera", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My daughter's name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.", "AUTHOR": "Bode Miller", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.", "AUTHOR": "Bode Miller", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a small business owner for the last 15 years, when I think of what truly changed my life, it was my faith, a strong family, my mom did a really, really good job of encouraging me in very clear and discernible ways.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Ian", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.", "AUTHOR": "David Ortiz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I still want to have a career and I still look forward to auditions and parts, and when I don't get them I'm disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and it's just not something I want to put money toward because it's expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things... so I don't have a stylist.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom taught me not to talk about money.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Ratner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Ratner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is this liberal, feminist, Mormon powerhouse. I just love her to death.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Isaak", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Dwayne Johnson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing my mom will let me get is a nice shoe sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Moretz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a secret Rastafarian.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Burns", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Sawa", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Jackson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Lewis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.", "AUTHOR": "Kathie Lee Gifford", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.", "AUTHOR": "Kathie Lee Gifford", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'", "AUTHOR": "Gina Carano", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.", "AUTHOR": "Liv Tyler", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's been married three times my dad has been married a lot. I didn't really see my dad that much.", "AUTHOR": "Skeet Ulrich", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child of my own.", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Hahn", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom really instilled in me that I'm beautiful and I can do anything, and I echo that now with my own girls.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was actually the one who decided to move to LA. Mom and I were driving on Sunset Boulevard during one of our trips back to see her family, and I said, 'Can we just stay?' So we did.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is great and I make sure that we pray together before every race. She helps me put everything in perspective and remind me of the real reason I run.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Lochte", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Wax", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.", "AUTHOR": "James Franco", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables. Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8\" and weighed 165 pounds.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Andres Puerta", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the '80s, and there was no bigger group than New Edition in R&B. I broke my piggy bank so me and my mom could go to a New Edition concert together.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Studdard", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.", "AUTHOR": "Emmy Rossum", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is a sculptress.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. Harvey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look up and see a star, I know my mom is there. She's with me all the time. It's a powerful connection.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Chriqui", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Eubanks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that's just the way it is. I don't think my son even knows any different.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!", "AUTHOR": "Zayn Malik", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Stone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Baranski", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.", "AUTHOR": "Susana Martinez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Austin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.", "AUTHOR": "Aubrey Plaza", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Moore", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom loved to sing - and I'll go on record and say she was the worst singer ever. I'd get up and move away from her!", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Rogers", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Trachtenberg", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Bertinelli", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Stevens", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Bergen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.", "AUTHOR": "Chaz Bono", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.", "AUTHOR": "Chaz Bono", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.", "AUTHOR": "Carmelo Anthony", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Reed", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Richardson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second from being mom to right out on the stage and having to be that person too. It's hard to switch gears.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Ann Womack", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Portman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Carlton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Carlton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl James", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Leo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Stone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother. Awhile back, my birth mom and my adopted mom came to my show together, and it was pretty surreal.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Westerberg", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Lennon", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Fischer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'", "AUTHOR": "Chanel Iman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.", "AUTHOR": "Chanel Iman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.", "AUTHOR": "Iggy Pop", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.", "AUTHOR": "Iggy Pop", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Spencer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten's neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Rockwell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Klosterman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lopez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Cline", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Skaggs", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Adu", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Adu", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Brown", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom died when I was 8.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when everyone's watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Alexander", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Affleck", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of Congress. Everyone knows Sameha simply as 'Sami.' Along with 500 miles of shelved books, her closest friendships are cataloged in that library. They are as much the value of work to my mom as is the work itself.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Szohr", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Slater", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Bassett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Walsh", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Walsh", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.", "AUTHOR": "Ryne Sandberg", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Before becoming a mom, I never knew how good I had it to just spend time at a spa for a few hours. Now, those days are far and between. So when I have an hour, it's all about the mani and pedi.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Mowry", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.", "AUTHOR": "Alia Shawkat", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Carter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Sanchez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Auerbach", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Baio", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.", "AUTHOR": "Larisa Oleynik", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Lamar", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Ford", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 12 I cried to my mom, because I never got my letter to Hogwarts.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Paxton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie Dunn", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Paxton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Aiello", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.", "AUTHOR": "Kate O'Brien", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Campbell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Kinsey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm like any working mom.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Ripa", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'", "AUTHOR": "Ali Larter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.", "AUTHOR": "George Thorogood", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.", "AUTHOR": "Donal Logue", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Brickell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Estefan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was definitely very strict with me.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Estefan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I dyed my hair blonde when I was 14. My mom was not happy. But I love being blonde.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Ora", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Huppert", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!", "AUTHOR": "Martha Quinn", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Sims", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan White", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.", "AUTHOR": "Karrie Webb", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mewes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a lot from my Mom. My favorite lesson: remember there is no such thing as a certain way to parent and to remember that you are learning along with your child - it's ok to make mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Rudolph", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.", "AUTHOR": "Zosia Mamet", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.", "AUTHOR": "Chantal Kreviazuk", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was into opera as a kid - I'd play 'Carmen' and sing and dance. My mom signed me up for a theater group before preschool, and I never looked back.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Arianda", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I begged my mom to let me start skating.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Thomas", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Thomas", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Reid", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my mom saying to me that what your friends do is one thing, but what you do could be on the front page of the paper.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McClellan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Dre", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.", "AUTHOR": "Joely Fisher", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Leifer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Breslin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Luke", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Speedman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!", "AUTHOR": "Michael Patrick King", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.", "AUTHOR": "Viola Davis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Moyer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.", "AUTHOR": "Brie Larson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Brie Larson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bergin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Scottoline", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'", "AUTHOR": "J. R. Martinez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hayes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evans", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Cheney", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Jai Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.", "AUTHOR": "Jai Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.", "AUTHOR": "Jai Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a mom as well as a senator!", "AUTHOR": "Patty Murray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Forbes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basically - and now suddenly I'm a mom?", "AUTHOR": "Cecily von Ziegesar", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Hudson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.", "AUTHOR": "Rich Lowry", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.", "AUTHOR": "James Belushi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burns", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Chaske Spencer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Wolf", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Mae", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Garcia", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Godfrey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.", "AUTHOR": "T-Bone Burnett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hughes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.", "AUTHOR": "Soleil Moon Frye", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.", "AUTHOR": "Soleil Moon Frye", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Sacramone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Hamill", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I'd ask my mom to explain everything they learned - drills and all.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Appleby", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Rannells", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Connors", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.", "AUTHOR": "Ivanka Trump", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'", "AUTHOR": "Lana Parrilla", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Parrilla", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and father are extremely proud. They love it when I don't die. I've done so many movies where I've died that their first question when I book a job is, 'So, are you going to die in this?'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ealy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Hocking", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Parrish", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Stojko", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Polley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.", "AUTHOR": "Alexa Vega", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Barnes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special he's still one of my favorite writers.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Dubus III", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Tricia Helfer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Evanovich", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Reinhart", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Sandoval", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Rettig", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's impossible to put yourself first when you're a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.", "AUTHOR": "Micky Dolenz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.", "AUTHOR": "Hale Irwin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually a family is led through the mom or the dad and their career and for the family to be led by my career, even though God has led it, could be a lot of pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Stacie Orrico", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Applegate", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Lohman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I am not really a conventional mom at all. Like, I had my kids really young. I had Danny when I was 18 or 19 and then Liam when I was 23 and Molly, I had when I was a little older.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Potter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Potter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.", "AUTHOR": "Atticus Shaffer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'", "AUTHOR": "Atticus Shaffer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.", "AUTHOR": "Atticus Shaffer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!", "AUTHOR": "Aly Raisman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm almost a full-time mom.", "AUTHOR": "Ekaterina Gordeeva", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.", "AUTHOR": "Mila Kunis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Kerry", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.", "AUTHOR": "Chrissie Hynde", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lynn Rajskub", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Ashton Kutcher", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.", "AUTHOR": "Brooklyn Decker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Leigh Cook", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.", "AUTHOR": "Geoff Davis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.", "AUTHOR": "Aasif Mandvi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Donovan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Barton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!", "AUTHOR": "Ana Ortiz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really lucky. My gal pal was my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Ana Ortiz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Lobo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Anaya", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Hughes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.", "AUTHOR": "Al Roker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Deschanel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Gibbs", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Balthazar Getty", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.", "AUTHOR": "Arizona Muse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.", "AUTHOR": "Arizona Muse", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Hatcher", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Sprague Grayden", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well.", "AUTHOR": "Sprague Grayden", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.", "AUTHOR": "Bridget Moynahan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mom first, a singer second.", "AUTHOR": "Gretchen Wilson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom worked with autistic children.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Lucas", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Bauer van Straten", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Couples", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.", "AUTHOR": "Chazz Palminteri", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Leah Remini", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Richardson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Kreuk", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.", "AUTHOR": "Soulja Boy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Bibb", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Neill", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not as though I had any say in the matter. I'm just really fortunate. She's the most kind, loving, giving woman.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Christensen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Yilmaz", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Murray", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Fuhrman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Fuhrman", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Alibar", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Derulo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Smith", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Franks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.", "AUTHOR": "Niki Taylor", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.", "AUTHOR": "Jayma Mays", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'", "AUTHOR": "Jayma Mays", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Jo Campbell", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Lucas Grabeel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia Ko", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Orszag", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!", "AUTHOR": "Angela Cartwright", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Williams", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Williams", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Misty May-Treanor", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's passionate and energetic and very funny and enthusiastic.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stonestreet", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Strayed", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Beard", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Curry", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Franco", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Doyle", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Wilson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We're definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock - the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side - her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he's a big fan of the Eagles and like that.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kelley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing.", "AUTHOR": "Ne-Yo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.", "AUTHOR": "Ne-Yo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.", "AUTHOR": "Ne-Yo", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Gerwig", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Horrocks", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Behr", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lopez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. I'm not just saying that because she's my mom. She's got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day.", "AUTHOR": "Santigold", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Mills", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love every second of being a mom.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Aldridge", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Theismann", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Lee", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Lee", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.", "AUTHOR": "Vanna White", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.", "AUTHOR": "Kaitlin Olson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Alyson Hannigan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.", "AUTHOR": "Alyson Hannigan", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.", "AUTHOR": "Creed Bratton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.", "AUTHOR": "Yul Vazquez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Pudi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Ashton Eaton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude,' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.", "AUTHOR": "Saskia de Brauw", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.", "AUTHOR": "Pauly Shore", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.", "AUTHOR": "Pauly Shore", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to audition with her. My mom was worried I would fall flat on my face because I'd never opened my mouth to sing, so she sent me to vocal lessons. I did the audition and fell in love with the entire process of a show.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Emerson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Schumer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kincade", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Steenburgen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?", "AUTHOR": "Tarsem Singh", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and I have always had issues.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy McCready", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mom first.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy McCready", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy McCready", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Segall", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.", "AUTHOR": "Hailee Steinfeld", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Barrett", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.", "AUTHOR": "Rico Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.", "AUTHOR": "Rico Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.", "AUTHOR": "Rico Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Rico Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'", "AUTHOR": "Rico Rodriguez", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Juneau", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Tookes", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Tiffani Amber Thiessen", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!", "AUTHOR": "Meg Cabot", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Winter", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!", "AUTHOR": "Marla Sokoloff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Sokoloff", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Panabaker", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.", "AUTHOR": "Terrell Davis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Roach", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Roach", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Roach", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer we knew we had made a mistake!", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bush", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Westfeldt", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.", "AUTHOR": "Kerri Walsh", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.", "AUTHOR": "Rima Fakih", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.", "AUTHOR": "David Giuntoli", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.", "AUTHOR": "Missy Franklin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Rob James-Collier", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'", "AUTHOR": "Ally Condie", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Oates", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Marie Combs", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.", "AUTHOR": "JoBeth Williams", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.", "AUTHOR": "Shuler Hensley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksa Palladino", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Shannon", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Cardellini", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Lauer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Ellingson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard LaGravenese", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.", "AUTHOR": "Emilie de Ravin", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.", "AUTHOR": "Dayo Okeniyi", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.", "AUTHOR": "Patina Miller", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Rae", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Henderson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.", "AUTHOR": "Schuyler Fisk", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.", "AUTHOR": "Tracee Ellis Ross", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Jo Johnson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.", "AUTHOR": "Tracee Ellis Ross", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Calis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Adams", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Calis", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Ecclestone", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.", "AUTHOR": "Little Milton", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Tomlinson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.", "AUTHOR": "Rainey Qualley", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Cosgrove", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.", "AUTHOR": "Eric West", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Cosgrove", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Wachowski", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Yuh Nelson", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.", "AUTHOR": "Nerlens Noel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom introduced me to science-fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Logan Marshall-Green", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.", "AUTHOR": "Nerlens Noel", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Capshaw", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Langenkamp", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Posey", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Hoffa", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Foxx", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Hoffa", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.", "AUTHOR": "George Grove", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it's a 16-year old girl, or a mom, or a guy, or anybody, as long as they come up and they're excited to meet me 'cause they've had some sort of relationship with something I've created, it's the coolest thing ever. It never gets old. It's awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grammer", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Harding", "GENRE": "mom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The lack of money is the root of all evil.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "For I can raise no money by vile means.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who have money and people who are rich.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A good reputation is more valuable than money.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Idol", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money: power at its most liquid.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.", "AUTHOR": "Everett Dirksen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?", "AUTHOR": "Alan King", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.", "AUTHOR": "Doyle Brunson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth flows from energy and ideas.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harvey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Gregg Easterbrook", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have enough money to eat I'm good.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Piaf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.", "AUTHOR": "David Geffen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Moore", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool and his money are soon parted.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Tusser", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Nicole Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Do what you love and the money will follow.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Sinetar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Carlson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Karcher", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrd", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all about the money.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.", "AUTHOR": "Merton Miller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Weiser", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.", "AUTHOR": "Placido Domingo", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Brando", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Haggard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Marshall", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Bee", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a mechanism for control.", "AUTHOR": "David Korten", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.", "AUTHOR": "William Randolph Hearst", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Simon", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Cavuto", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Steinitz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Leach", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Hutton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later, we sell out for money.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Randall", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Rock", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everything depends on money.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Bean", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Raven", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is other people's money.", "AUTHOR": "Delphine de Girardin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.", "AUTHOR": "Al Bernstein", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Georg Zimmermann", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.", "AUTHOR": "George M. Humphrey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the best government that money can buy.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I can make more generals, but horses cost money.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Never spend your money before you have earned it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Walton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool and his money are soon elected.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Kravis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that credit is money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money often costs too much.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael LeBoeuf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship and money: oil and water.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Lack of money is the root of all evil.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is usually attracted, not pursued.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money doesn't talk, it swears.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money without brains is always dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You reach a point where you don't work for money.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. DeVos", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Davies", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hopkins", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.", "AUTHOR": "George Best", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The sinews of war are infinite money.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Bryant Quinn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Glass", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Frazier", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Greeley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Derek", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Tucker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The want of money is the root of all evil.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Syd Barrett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People first, then money, then things.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.", "AUTHOR": "David Lee Roth", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Land", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.", "AUTHOR": "A. A. Milne", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Houdini", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really interested in making money.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.", "AUTHOR": "David Millar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.", "AUTHOR": "Li Na", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The passion for money is never fickle.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.", "AUTHOR": "Atal Bihari Vajpayee", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Godfrey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't talk about money.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "All money is a matter of belief.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.", "AUTHOR": "David Korten", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Bono", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People will always choose more money over more sex.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Tucker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Schuyler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Auster", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No man's credit is as good as his money.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Venturi", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I do everything for money.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care about money.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My Vegas act is how I make my money.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to stop spending money we don't have.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of love I'm still more tired of rhyme but money gives me pleasure all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Luc Godard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.", "AUTHOR": "Lysander Spooner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Livingston", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Milligan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Juliana Hatfield", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Spare no expense to save money on this one.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to making money is to stay invested.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool and her money are soon courted.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wagner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there we're a band of brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.", "AUTHOR": "Humphrey Bogart", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Quant", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.", "AUTHOR": "P. T. Barnum", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the elites despise earning money.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.", "AUTHOR": "Greer Garson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Laffer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Milk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have too much money invested in sweaters.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no idea how much money I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.", "AUTHOR": "Amiri Baraka", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Foss", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Handy", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Ellison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is just the poor man's credit card.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a poor man's credit card.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Davies", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Badnarik", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Brooks", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.", "AUTHOR": "Chester A. Arthur", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.", "AUTHOR": "Abel Ferrara", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Cornelius Vanderbilt", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Young", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.", "AUTHOR": "Buck Baker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Hazlitt", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Hillary", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like begging money from producers.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Expensive clothes are a waste of money.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration just think how many bombs that would buy!", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.", "AUTHOR": "Al Franken", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Messi", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Porter", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis George", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Butterworth", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Mazar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph de Maistre", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Stanley", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.", "AUTHOR": "George Horace Lorimer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Gift", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.", "AUTHOR": "George Leigh Mallory", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cramer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Armey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Boortz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Fry", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.", "AUTHOR": "J. Edgar Hoover", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money just draws flies.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Things are done according to money these days.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Dayan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If the money's right, I'll do a film.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Braun", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You must spend money to make money.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Graham-Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I know where I'm putting my money.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Dash", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Mackay", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.", "AUTHOR": "Don Van Vliet", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money doesn't buy class.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Armour", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make decisions based on money.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Sinead O'Connor", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Garrison", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings are much bigger than just making money.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Verhofstadt", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Renfro", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Geithner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Banks", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Dean", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Lauren", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wynn", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage, like money, is still with us and, like money, progressively devalued.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mapplethorpe", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money for me today does not really matter.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't come from money.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Fellini", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Big money is ruining the political system.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Newman", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Benjamin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.", "AUTHOR": "Ricki Lake", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Nelson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so habit-forming as money.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Navratilova", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Cryer", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What is there that money will not do?", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Ludacris", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Szent-Gyorgyi", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Lange", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Money does not guarantee success.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.", "AUTHOR": "Angus Young", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "money" }, { "QUOTE": "Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The sun is new each day.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Martin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Davis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome Lawrence", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.", "AUTHOR": "Larry King", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Good morning is a contradiction of terms.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Whately", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dempsey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Wright", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Cary Grant", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Sinetar", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to their ballgame, I don't get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother had morning sickness after I was born.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Yastrzemski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.", "AUTHOR": "Antonin Artaud", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Corelli", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Kite", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Lorenz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Gena Lee Nolin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.", "AUTHOR": "Sholom Aleichem", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gyllenhaal", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Davis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.", "AUTHOR": "A. E. Housman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.", "AUTHOR": "James Rollins", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Schubert", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Brees", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I wake up and thank God.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Neville", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Russell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Newman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Alpert", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Woodberry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't tell you enough about cinnamon. Cinnamon is an awesome spice to use and it goes great with something like apples in the morning or in a mixture of fruit or in your oatmeal or even in your cereal.", "AUTHOR": "Emeril Lagasse", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.", "AUTHOR": "Bram Stoker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'", "AUTHOR": "Jensen Ackles", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Agassi", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Askin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really like waking up one morning and going, Wow, I enjoy being with this person more than anybody else in my life, and it just turned out to be mutual.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Austin Green", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen White", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.", "AUTHOR": "Joan of Arc", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Martin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!", "AUTHOR": "Ozzy Osbourne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Ennis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Woodberry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.", "AUTHOR": "James Daly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.", "AUTHOR": "Sugar Ray Robinson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do cardio one day and the next day you can do weights, do it that way. If you need to do it at night or in the morning, do it that way. Whatever you need to get it done, just get it done.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Nizer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.", "AUTHOR": "George Ade", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Peter De Vries", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed again. It's stupid to think that way.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.", "AUTHOR": "George Foreman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Faye Bakker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to think of yourself as a brand, especially when I have four daughters who kick my butt early in the morning every day before I go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Wood", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Haile Gebrselassie", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.", "AUTHOR": "Baal Shem Tov", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.", "AUTHOR": "Traci Bingham", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.", "AUTHOR": "John Burns", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I have to be like people expect, because people love to dream with me, they like to think that I love my boat of 50 metres, that I drink Cristal for breakfast, that I dance until five o'clock in the morning. I am not like that.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up at the same time every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Hamill", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had.'", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Collins", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.", "AUTHOR": "June Carter Cash", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Duke", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Burton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Clinton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Ritchie", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.", "AUTHOR": "Stella McCartney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Later, in the early teens, I used to ride my bike every Saturday morning to the nearest airport, ten miles away, push airplanes in and out of the hangars, and clean up the hangars.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn't available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don't know that it's seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals continued our course in the morning and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Columbus", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Columbus", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawkes", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Willis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.", "AUTHOR": "Izaak Walton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Garrison", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Jackson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Garnett", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My principal motivation is supporting my family, which is not a bad reason for getting up in the morning. That's always been my motivation - to take care of the people who rely on me.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.", "AUTHOR": "George Aiken", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I eat as much as the next girl, but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favorites.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.", "AUTHOR": "John Hench", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Page", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Romano", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Pullman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wiles", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Wiles", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.", "AUTHOR": "Sheena Easton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Tyler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.", "AUTHOR": "Jenson Button", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a morning person.", "AUTHOR": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hogan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.", "AUTHOR": "Satyajit Ray", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Auerbach", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Namie Amuro", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manchin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.", "AUTHOR": "David Gest", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Cornwell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Pais", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Hume", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a hotline to the tabloids. When I get up in the morning, I call the Star, and the last thing at night, I call them. I want them to have the inside track.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'", "AUTHOR": "Harold H. Greene", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a morning writer I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Fuentes", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of 'Morning Joe,' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Pekar", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Slovo", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "George Horace Lorimer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o'clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.", "AUTHOR": "James Inhofe", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Nellie Bly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Mowry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Gilley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Clay", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dudley Warner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It only worked for a little while the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hornung", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Moreau", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Corr", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolf Arnheim", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Bateman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was morning through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Carano", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.", "AUTHOR": "Stella McCartney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Sewell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Black", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Schiffer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Golden", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kruger", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Jones", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Diamond", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.", "AUTHOR": "James Franco", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Jones", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Merton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I feel like every year I get a year younger. I don't wake up in the morning with aches and pains.", "AUTHOR": "Rickey Henderson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Clowes", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Pantoliano", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.", "AUTHOR": "Gunter Grass", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Le Saux", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why you call it morning sickness, because I was sick all day and night!", "AUTHOR": "Soleil Moon Frye", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Puck", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Daldry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Daldry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Spitz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Butler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Pegg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Arguello", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.", "AUTHOR": "Radha Mitchell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Manilow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.", "AUTHOR": "Zooey Deschanel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Chastain", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Somers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Scarborough", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!", "AUTHOR": "Katie Couric", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Couric", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it's a very different animal. You know, they're running around, they're getting their kids ready for school, they're probably doing eight million things, they're brushing their teeth.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Couric", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Couric", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Hirsch", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Rhys Meyers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Harold H. Greene", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tork", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.", "AUTHOR": "Midge Ure", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Murphy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Harry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Neill", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.", "AUTHOR": "Elliott Erwitt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done the best I can with the morning show. I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, you have the morning papers, you know, it's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "George Steiner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.", "AUTHOR": "Lasse Hallstrom", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Westerberg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.", "AUTHOR": "Rose McGowan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.", "AUTHOR": "Carey Mulligan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Buckingham", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Murray", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another.", "AUTHOR": "Henry L. Stimson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.", "AUTHOR": "Utada Hikaru", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sherwood", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Ostrofsky", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Arnold", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dole", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Davies", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Routh", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Isaacs", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.", "AUTHOR": "Priscilla Presley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning, I reach for the sports page.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me they're just good.", "AUTHOR": "Lee DeWyze", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Capaldi", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Green", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Traherne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Glazer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Ann Inaba", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Piven", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Muddy Waters", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Thurston Moore", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.", "AUTHOR": "William Dampier", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.", "AUTHOR": "William John Wills", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'", "AUTHOR": "Saul Perlmutter", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Amiel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Reeves", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Abril", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Abril", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Goddard", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.", "AUTHOR": "Caprice Bourret", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Clyburn", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.", "AUTHOR": "Mohsen Makhmalbaf", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.", "AUTHOR": "Dan O'Brien", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Chapman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Gompers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel a lot healthier when I'm having sex. Physically. I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. I take vitamins, I work out every day. When I'm having sex, I don't have that.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I took prenatal yoga three times a week, including the morning I went into labor. It helped me stay comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Hackman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brooks", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Sheffield", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.", "AUTHOR": "Lizzie Andrew Borden", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Shepard Smith", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.", "AUTHOR": "Jeannette Walls", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Philipp Moritz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.", "AUTHOR": "George Eads", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby McFerrin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Scott", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Blume", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Blume", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Evans", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Niemeyer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin MacLeod", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Brien", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Tedder", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Sims", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.", "AUTHOR": "William Henry Ashley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Randall", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Feiffer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.", "AUTHOR": "Buck Owens", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Henry Abbott", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Riley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Duffy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Guston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Cook", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Iger", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age... with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Rose", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dean Foster", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Chalke", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.", "AUTHOR": "Erika Slezak", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tunney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Olson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Mondale", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parkman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parkman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Durkin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.", "AUTHOR": "April Winchell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Cooper", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Bosworth", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Summers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Loud", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Wayne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Reagan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Reagan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Ebbinghaus", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Kattan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Widmark", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Budington Kelland", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.", "AUTHOR": "Du Fu", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.", "AUTHOR": "Campbell Scott", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel pretty good when I get out of bed in the morning. I don't feel all beat up, which is nice.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Bledsoe", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.", "AUTHOR": "Meriwether Lewis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.", "AUTHOR": "Meriwether Lewis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.", "AUTHOR": "Meriwether Lewis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.", "AUTHOR": "David O. Selznick", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Krohn", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to be busy and I like to have places to go in the morning, when I get up.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hayes", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.", "AUTHOR": "Barry McGuire", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel De Leon", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Minghella", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Quinn", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Ward", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Kwan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!", "AUTHOR": "Chris Colfer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Meriwether", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.", "AUTHOR": "Artie Lange", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.", "AUTHOR": "Frederik Pohl", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Duffy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Heitkamp", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Shalom Harlow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dooley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.", "AUTHOR": "Tabitha Soren", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Morris", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.", "AUTHOR": "Sissy Spacek", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Knight", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Najimy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Sheckler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's disrespectful to tell the French in the morning that you're going to reduce the debt, in the evening that you're not going to make any savings, and the next morning, after thinking about it, that you're going to spend more.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Sarkozy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The work is with me when I wake up in the morning it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Forester", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Cornett", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Campbell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.", "AUTHOR": "Vijay Mallya", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Dukan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Carey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Snowdon", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I m up at 5 in the morning and in bed by 10 in the evening.", "AUTHOR": "DeForest Kelley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.", "AUTHOR": "Donald E. Westlake", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.", "AUTHOR": "Don Winslow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books.", "AUTHOR": "Don Winslow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Don Winslow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Hall", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Gardner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Brenner", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.", "AUTHOR": "Florence King", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.", "AUTHOR": "Fanny Kemble", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Dobrev", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, 'My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.'", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Cockburn", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Klimt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Klimt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Trachtenberg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.", "AUTHOR": "Klaus Fuchs", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Murray", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Peguy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.", "AUTHOR": "Corbin Bernsen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Boyd", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hiller", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Cleaver", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Chung", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Henderson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible says not to worry so I don't. I just get up in the morning and ask God for help to get through the day. If tomorrow shows up then I'll take the same shot tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Henderson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Tilly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Treadaway", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Ana Ortiz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I wake up with new ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Caroll Shelby", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.", "AUTHOR": "Cab Calloway", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.", "AUTHOR": "Adelbert von Chamisso", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.", "AUTHOR": "Dinah Sheridan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We also own a little boat and I'm like a kid with it. I take off early in the morning, fishing rod in tow, and just drift about the ocean all day.", "AUTHOR": "Perry Como", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Ross", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Mathis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.", "AUTHOR": "William Bligh", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mordecai Richler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.", "AUTHOR": "David Eddings", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Gibbs", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Tilly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.", "AUTHOR": "Lennart Meri", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.", "AUTHOR": "John Lewis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.", "AUTHOR": "Dusty Baker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Olson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Brendon", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Alanna Ubach", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?", "AUTHOR": "Maeve Binchy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.", "AUTHOR": "Chubby Checker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Ward", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Cutter", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Gore", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Gore", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Forster", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.", "AUTHOR": "Norton Juster", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pine", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Sinclair", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.", "AUTHOR": "Clayton Christensen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.", "AUTHOR": "Peter L. Bergen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Griffin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!", "AUTHOR": "Nafisa Joseph", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.", "AUTHOR": "Jayma Mays", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'", "AUTHOR": "Jayma Mays", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.", "AUTHOR": "James Whitcomb Riley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Malone", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Storr", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ferguson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Dean Morgan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Cantone", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Bologna", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Fisher", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Summitt", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Richardson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.", "AUTHOR": "Tyne Daly", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Seth MacFarlane", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.", "AUTHOR": "John Hersey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Mickelson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Antin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Antin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Robinson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sutton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.", "AUTHOR": "Lars Ulrich", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Mitchell", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Daniel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a family and two cats I get up with my kids early in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Vanna White", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only dumbbells. That's about it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Bowman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Houston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Stevenson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Pudi", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'", "AUTHOR": "Anthony LaPaglia", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In this respect early youth is exactly like old age it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Catton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Catton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Nas", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Sarsgaard", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Muir", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Goldberg", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Romeo", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Francis Burton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!", "AUTHOR": "Angie Dickinson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Bond", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Nunez", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Ween", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Brady", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.", "AUTHOR": "Satish Kumar", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.", "AUTHOR": "Beanie Sigel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Tookes", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Stone", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Murkoff", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Murkoff", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "William Mapother", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.", "AUTHOR": "D. L. Hughley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Lloyd", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Berry", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it those same effects.", "AUTHOR": "Terrell Davis", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Salisbury", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.", "AUTHOR": "William Dampier", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.", "AUTHOR": "Ian St. John", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Rhoda", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Ecclestone", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?", "AUTHOR": "Tim Reid", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?", "AUTHOR": "Christina Perri", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.", "AUTHOR": "Traci Bingham", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rooney", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Grasso", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation.", "AUTHOR": "Daniela Pestova", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get the morning report on security, I call those battalions in the regions where there are problems.", "AUTHOR": "Alvaro Uribe", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie O'Sullivan", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Harlow", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Preston", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Snider", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to wake up a virgin each morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Louis Barrault", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Klugman", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Toots Thielemans", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Ken", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Briggs", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Elliott", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's probably best to work out in the morning to get it out of the way. My ultimate top tip is to drag yourself, even if you have to roll yourself out of your bed and in to a sit-up - it's really not that bad once you start.", "AUTHOR": "Lily James", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Tara Lipinski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Asprin", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Maud Welzen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Jablonski", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really a morning person.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Burton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clymer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.", "AUTHOR": "William Wyler", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Parker", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Pearson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to.", "AUTHOR": "John Byng", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Park", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ripley", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.", "AUTHOR": "William Hull", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Rogers", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.", "AUTHOR": "Moss Hart", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.", "AUTHOR": "Angus Wilson", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I work out twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Heatherton", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant Gumbel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Forster", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.", "AUTHOR": "Gary McCord", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron van der Burgh", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.", "AUTHOR": "Frankie Valli", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.", "AUTHOR": "William Brewster", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.", "AUTHOR": "John Tenniel", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Schulz", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Early One Morning takes time and, I mean, all things like that I felt were very important.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Caro", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.", "AUTHOR": "Dion Sanders", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.", "AUTHOR": "John Gibbon", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.", "AUTHOR": "Marv Levy", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Foxx", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.", "AUTHOR": "George M. Humphrey", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Westheimer", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kimball", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Francesco Borromini", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Storm", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis always morning somewhere in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Henry Horne", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Nilsen", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James", "GENRE": "morning" }, { "QUOTE": "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going through hell, keep going.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "After a storm comes a calm.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Venturi", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can dream it, you can do it.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Kiam", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of getting ahead is getting started.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Well done is better than well said.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Cohen", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Always desire to learn something useful.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Quality is not an act, it is a habit.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Never complain and never explain.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always too early to quit.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Caine", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Who seeks shall find.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Jackson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Know or listen to those who know.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Gulbis", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Leap, and the net will appear.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The most effective way to do it, is to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "To know oneself, one should assert oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Elliot", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I can, therefore I am.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.", "AUTHOR": "Jack London", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the educated are free.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever you are - be all there.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a good loser is to learn how to win.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon B. Hinckley", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise does at once what the fool does at last.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've got a talent, protect it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Browne", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Dean", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Brazile", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "The dog that trots about finds a bone.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think you can do it, you can.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rorty", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what motivates you.", "AUTHOR": "Cicely Tyson", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "motivational" }, { "QUOTE": "Film spectators are quiet vampires.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I never enjoyed working in a film.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything makes me nervous - except making films.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Luc Godard", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Luc Godard", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Burton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A film is a petrified fountain of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great film should seem new every time you see it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Fellini", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to film is that it's an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pickford", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Film lovers are sick people.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us do not consciously look at movies.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's a filmmaker today.", "AUTHOR": "John Milius", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.", "AUTHOR": "Oskar Werner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Luc Godard", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an electrical thing about movies.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I make movies I want to see.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Kael", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.", "AUTHOR": "Wim Wenders", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.", "AUTHOR": "Richard King", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.", "AUTHOR": "Yahoo Serious", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Sirk", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books, they're not the theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Roeg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Quaid", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Emmerich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Orbach", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.", "AUTHOR": "John Leeson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the movies and the movies are us.", "AUTHOR": "David Ansen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I learned I learned from the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All my movies are achingly personal.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Guttenberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are like magic tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm used to watching old movies of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are very subjective.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.", "AUTHOR": "Aishwarya Rai", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The best movies are simple.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Those movies sure got me into a rut.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much TV hurts movies.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Burton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Burton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Clarke Duncan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device, It's just about a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies make you immortal and ageless.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Zwick", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like children to watch my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've choreographed all of my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like very much to do movies.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?", "AUTHOR": "John Lasseter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like movies I can relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Sizemore", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sondheim", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to make movies.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up I didn't watch movies.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard King", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Parrilla", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I aim for a lifetime full of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to make movies.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make timeless movies.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done many different movies in many different contexts.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Audiences want to see intelligent movies.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.", "AUTHOR": "James Stewart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Wood", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All I do is go to the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the good feeling movies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like to move and get physical in my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do enjoy animated movies.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like four-hour movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just love movies.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are different from real life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love going to movies.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Byrne", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a fan of action movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Moreau", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.", "AUTHOR": "Bil Keane", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gyllenhaal", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Schroder", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Lizzy Caplan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Bob Thornton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "But most good movies have a gun in them.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.", "AUTHOR": "Ice T", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Myers", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.", "AUTHOR": "Charlton Heston", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.", "AUTHOR": "Callan McAuliffe", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lawrence", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lawrence", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm scared of scary movies.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just feel like with independent movies... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing kind of more kiddish-oriented movies, but I also love doing adult things. And I think it's fun to do a mix.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I made good movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus they're not dead.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I meet gay fans out and about, they're so great to talk to - and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies I want guys to come, too!", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Immortals' is all action. I love action movies. That's really where I want to spearhead my career.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you're doing movies and stuff, you're a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, 'Sherri, you said what I feel.' That just means so much to me to know that I have that support.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Griffin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Harrison", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Redgrave", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.", "AUTHOR": "Tippi Hedren", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like high impact movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't direct movies for a living.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Almodovar", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Joss Whedon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love it, man I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening.", "AUTHOR": "Jonah Hill", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like movies about failing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are an expensive business.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I cast unusual people in my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Brooks", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Ritchie", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Ritchie", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always attracted to science fiction movies.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should you have to atone for making big movies?", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.", "AUTHOR": "John Hench", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Penn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies were custard compared to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.", "AUTHOR": "Stephenie Meyer", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.", "AUTHOR": "David Fincher", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.", "AUTHOR": "Errol Morris", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Scarlett Johansson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.", "AUTHOR": "James Franco", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'", "AUTHOR": "Sally Field", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Bruckheimer", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.", "AUTHOR": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All my good movies, nobody sees.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are movies, television is television.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard King", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Luis Bunuel made great movies.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Reznor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Duritz", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Driver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Watts", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.", "AUTHOR": "M. Night Shyamalan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Lennon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I manage to hide in my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Rodriguez", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Famke Janssen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.", "AUTHOR": "Famke Janssen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.", "AUTHOR": "Famke Janssen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.", "AUTHOR": "Famke Janssen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.", "AUTHOR": "Famke Janssen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Rihanna", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.", "AUTHOR": "Barbet Schroeder", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are about escape.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Taymor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.", "AUTHOR": "Leelee Sobieski", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.", "AUTHOR": "Ewan McGregor", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Ocean", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to think about movies and how we watch them. Let them know it's okay to question the structure or how we're sometimes duped into a false sense of normalcy. Most of all, I want people to question the old standard practices of, 'This is how the structure of something should work,' or, 'This is how a character must behave.'", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?", "AUTHOR": "Kate Hudson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.", "AUTHOR": "Penny Marshall", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Landau", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Caan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Caan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been interested in making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Burns", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it would be fun to write about movies again.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "No, 'F/X 2' was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn't direct it but 'Candyman' and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It's informed everything I've done, even the way scenes are shot in 'Kinsey and 'Gods and Monsters.'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jackson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Dern", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Dern", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing serious movies for adults.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Dern", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Thomas Anderson", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's more to life than movies.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Black", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Winter", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Morton", "GENRE": "movies" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Anderson", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Pelzer", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget the past.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all this, too, shall pass.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart will break, but broken live on.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing yourself is connected with healing others.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Khayyam", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.", "AUTHOR": "Romain Rolland", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Brownstein", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pickford", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Fielding", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dempsey", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Anka", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Richie", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.", "AUTHOR": "Duncan Sheik", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Biggs", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.", "AUTHOR": "Phylicia Rashad", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Halpern", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.", "AUTHOR": "Christiaan Barnard", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.", "AUTHOR": "Beverley Mitchell", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Winslet", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Gay Harden", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.", "AUTHOR": "David Milne", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Coyne", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.", "AUTHOR": "David Remnick", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Thompson Walker", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Summers", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Ifill", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.", "AUTHOR": "Summer Glau", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Cooney", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Lucci", "GENRE": "movingon" }, { "QUOTE": "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If music be the food of love, play on.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Without music, life would be a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Britten", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In music the passions enjoy themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Hell is full of musical amateurs.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can change the world because it can change people.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Berthold Auerbach", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the shorthand of emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You are the music while the music lasts.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the strongest form of magic.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is well said to be the speech of angels.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.", "AUTHOR": "B. B. King", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is forever music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All music is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Strayhorn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Mahler", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Ferry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Where words fail, music speaks.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Christian Andersen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.", "AUTHOR": "Duke Ellington", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When words leave off, music begins.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Hart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the best means we have of digesting time.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is love in search of a word.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Lanier", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.", "AUTHOR": "Dizzy Gillespie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Ace Frehley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Any good music must be an innovation.", "AUTHOR": "Les Baxter", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Winter", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Stern", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music should be your escape.", "AUTHOR": "Missy Elliot", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Branch", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.", "AUTHOR": "Yancy Butler", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dietz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Alpert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Ferry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the soul of language.", "AUTHOR": "Max Heindel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Ferry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The real art of conducting consists in transitions.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Mahler", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.", "AUTHOR": "Andres Segovia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Casals", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sheehan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Cherone", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.", "AUTHOR": "Aimee Mann", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Guy", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.", "AUTHOR": "Paulina Rubio", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Garrett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.", "AUTHOR": "David Coverdale", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Stipe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Vinton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Beresford", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a performance and needs the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tippett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.", "AUTHOR": "Toru Takemitsu", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Byrd", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Wright", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wopat", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a friendship set to music.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I need drama in my life to keep making music.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music inflames temperament.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a safe kind of high.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I call architecture frozen music.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to use my music to move these people to act.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy is the highest music.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. McLean", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Folk music is a bunch of fat people.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music for me, it demands full concentration.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music fills the infinite between two souls.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Prefontaine", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hughes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is always a commentary on society.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the melody whose text is the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Newhart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Sebastian Bach", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Some music really does suck!", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Peabo Bryson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is spiritual. The music business is not.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In memory everything seems to happen to music.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.", "AUTHOR": "Gottfried Leibniz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Coyne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the best way for me to say I love you.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Mathieu", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Haden", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rich", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Slick", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The world's a better place since I chose music.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Trotter", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Andres Segovia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Vicious", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the universal language of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is essentially useless, as is life.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.", "AUTHOR": "Meat Loaf", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for myself' - nobody's doing it for themselves! You're doing it for an audience. So whether I'm performing or writing a book or playing music, it's definitely to be put out there and to be received in some way, definitely.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Metal is still the biggest music now in America.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Bach", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.", "AUTHOR": "Ingmar Bergman", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.", "AUTHOR": "Satyajit Ray", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was important. Football was the easy part.", "AUTHOR": "Zinedine Zidane", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.", "AUTHOR": "Mencius", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Parker", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.", "AUTHOR": "James Hetfield", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.", "AUTHOR": "Leopold Stokowski", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music fathoms the sky.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop music will never be low brow.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I write music every day.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to make niche-oriented music.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to keep writing music.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Well-written words are music.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.", "AUTHOR": "April Winchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?", "AUTHOR": "Ozzy Osbourne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.", "AUTHOR": "George Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.", "AUTHOR": "George Lucas", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Molko", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me so I have to cover all the areas with my album.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't really imagine music without technology.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Good music is very close to primitive language.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Black", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Marceau", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Berlioz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Please write music like Wagner, only louder.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is like a huge release of tension.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.", "AUTHOR": "David Guetta", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My aim is just to make good music every single time.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For me the visual is just as important as the music.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hindemith", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The music stuff is just a hobby.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the emotional life of most people.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I found music to be the therapy of choice.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is for every single person that walks the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Ayers", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is part of God's universe.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.", "AUTHOR": "John Erskine", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, music totally comes from your soul.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Aiken", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.", "AUTHOR": "Corita Kent", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Ives", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "One often makes music to supplement one's world.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Most game music is based on loops effectively.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't see music as working.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur O'Shaughnessy", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Pride", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.", "AUTHOR": "David Lynch", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is your guide.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The only love affair I have ever had was with music.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Ravel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Holly", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of country music is sad.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.", "AUTHOR": "Ravi Shankar", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't make music - it makes us.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.", "AUTHOR": "James Iha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We tend to mistake music for the physical object.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's more good music being made now than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a music fan before anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Nuno Bettencourt", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out.", "AUTHOR": "John Entwistle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is part of the life of fashion, too.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Way", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Simone", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is really something that makes people whole.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Neil", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, music and life are all about style.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Hackett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Bach", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just do what I do. I like to make music.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my music to do the explaining.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fripp", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Barber", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music is three chords and the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Howard", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Webb", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There is still a future with music, because people want music.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hindemith", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no religion but sex and music.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.", "AUTHOR": "Iggy Pop", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop music is not a threatening style of music.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I know music is subjective.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not trying to change the world just music.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Singing is just a feeling set to music.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Clemons", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.", "AUTHOR": "Layne Staley", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.", "AUTHOR": "Jay London", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting it's something far, far deeper than that.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.", "AUTHOR": "John McLaughlin", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock music is niche.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tork", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to make music and stay grounded.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Sebastian Bach", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about my music is, there really is no point.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Boethius", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Live music is better.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Dale", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music my rampart, and my only one.", "AUTHOR": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Mendelssohn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.", "AUTHOR": "Axl Rose", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Parker", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Soul music is timeless.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.", "AUTHOR": "John Stamos", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Collins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "George Strait", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.", "AUTHOR": "John Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Beecham", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and the music business are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tippett", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too just different than mine.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music is fun, kind of cheeky.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love country music.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Cain", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Axel Munthe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfman Jack", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Monroe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Ramone", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.", "AUTHOR": "David Guetta", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Mangione", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Chesney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Debussy", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Marcel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Sanchez", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Januszkiewicz", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.", "AUTHOR": "Nat King Cole", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.", "AUTHOR": "Aulis Sallinen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music has always sort of been country music.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Hofmann", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.", "AUTHOR": "John Philip Sousa", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Ra", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Hersh", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is what I love to do it's in my veins.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.", "AUTHOR": "Jam Master Jay", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.", "AUTHOR": "Toru Takemitsu", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.", "AUTHOR": "Ice T", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Lombardo", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Mendelssohn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.", "AUTHOR": "Neko Case", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've sung other people's music all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very inspired by past music.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Mendelssohn", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.", "AUTHOR": "Archie Shepp", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Crowe", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Ailey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Gore", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.", "AUTHOR": "Snoop Dogg", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music became a healer for me.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Adams", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I love from metal, and that's what I love from hip-hop. That's what I love from any music that's hard, that's got an edge to it-The attitude in it.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Page", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love 70's music.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is what our feelings sound like.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tork", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never stop discovering music.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What's missing from pop music is danger.", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is hugely important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rhodes", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music breaks my heart constantly.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I see music as fluid architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I write music with an exclamation point!", "AUTHOR": "Richard Wagner", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny G", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.", "AUTHOR": "Lorin Maazel", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that sense of change that you'd get in pop music every three minutes, every four minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Evans", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Wilson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love recording music.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Moroder", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Hawkins", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always going to do that - record and make music.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I love slow music.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music is about new love and it's about old love.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "You know I used to listen to music a lot more.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Simone", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Cantrell", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop music has progressed.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Tomas Luis de Victoria", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "music" }, { "QUOTE": "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are always flowers for those who want to see them.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The good man is the friend of all living things.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth laughs in flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The bluebird carries the sky on his back.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Reiner", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The mountains are calling and I must go.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington Carver", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Miller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is blooming most recklessly if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am two with nature.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry of the earth is never dead.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Land really is the best art.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.", "AUTHOR": "Langston Hughes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Steichen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Bronte", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Christian Anderson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard De Nerval", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is wont to hide herself.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Brooke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Tory Peterson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bernhard", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Basil", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldo Rivera", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Ackerman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Monet", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.", "AUTHOR": "John Fowles", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.", "AUTHOR": "Hamlin Garland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Simenon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Goldsworthy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Porchia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roethke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.", "AUTHOR": "David Gerrold", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no forgiveness in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ugo Betti", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.", "AUTHOR": "Izaak Walton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wilson Lynd", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Boyle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert White", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.", "AUTHOR": "James Whitcomb Riley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The groves were God's first temples.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Berne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.", "AUTHOR": "Hamlin Garland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Kilmer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.", "AUTHOR": "P. D. James", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.", "AUTHOR": "Hamlin Garland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Weinberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cantwell Wallace", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All men by nature desire knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Britten", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature hates calculators.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is by nature a political animal.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature does nothing in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is not human hearted.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "External nature is only internal nature writ large.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "My nature just changes.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is one of nature's masterpieces.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have a dualistic nature.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Norris Russell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Dax", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Water is the driving force of all nature.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't just let nature run wild.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has always had more force than education.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All art is but imitation of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For greed all nature is too little.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is not of itself vicious.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.", "AUTHOR": "Carrot Top", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature never breaks her own laws.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Crews", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cavendish", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-preservation is the first law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature abhors annihilation.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Jones", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Alan King", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is art? Nature concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I love not man the less, but Nature more.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All nature is but art unknown to thee.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Keith", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Beston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Garner", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The Amen of nature is always a flower.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No speech can stain what is noble by nature.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in excess is opposed to nature.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Chapman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Gossip is nature's telephone.", "AUTHOR": "Sholom Aleichem", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Heisenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.", "AUTHOR": "David Millar", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Atwater", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a harmony parallel with nature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.", "AUTHOR": "Standing Bear", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Noble", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Moreau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gaudi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanora Duse", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.", "AUTHOR": "Nikita Khrushchev", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Weldon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is perfect.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.", "AUTHOR": "Ellsworth Huntington", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Great art picks up where nature ends.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wilcox", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Guthrie", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Maynard James Keenan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We must return to nature and nature's god.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Monet", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bernstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.", "AUTHOR": "Thorstein Veblen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.", "AUTHOR": "Eleonora Duse", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "People must help one another it is nature's law.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is the art of God.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "By nature I'm not a brooder.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.", "AUTHOR": "William Howard Taft", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.", "AUTHOR": "Satish Kumar", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.", "AUTHOR": "Syd Barrett", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald Alexander", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Grafton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great deal of human nature in man.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.", "AUTHOR": "William Burroughs", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of rumor is known to all.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my home and I like the nature.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Ingelow", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.", "AUTHOR": "Albrecht Durer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Loos", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Burton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Empedocles", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is neutral.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.", "AUTHOR": "Cass Sunstein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Thompson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature can do more than physicians.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Cromwell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Your nature is the Buddha.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Anderson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.", "AUTHOR": "William Henry Harrison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.", "AUTHOR": "James Whistler", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1\". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Webb", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.", "AUTHOR": "Edouard Manet", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.", "AUTHOR": "John Garamendi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Kepler", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is a petrified magic city.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Sallust", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.", "AUTHOR": "Robinson Jeffers", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.", "AUTHOR": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.", "AUTHOR": "Juvenal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Faraday", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Assange", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.", "AUTHOR": "John Coltrane", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Holland", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.", "AUTHOR": "David Hackworth", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.", "AUTHOR": "Regina Spektor", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just a part of our nature to hope.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Blavatsky", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Sound is the vocabulary of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Schaeffer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Titus Livius", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.", "AUTHOR": "C. Northcote Parkinson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.", "AUTHOR": "Bhumibol Adulyadej", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Weishaupt", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Pissarro", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Grey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down, depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with, there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dean Anderson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Custom is second nature.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine of Hippo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Jason Leigh", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Willem de Kooning", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "English majors understand human nature better than economists do.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Cruise O'Brien", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Lacy", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Hovhaness", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Kasparov", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Alexander", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Cantor", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The skull is nature's sculpture.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.", "AUTHOR": "Primo Levi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Marvell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.", "AUTHOR": "John Cage", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Hidden nature is secret God.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.", "AUTHOR": "Josef Albers", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.", "AUTHOR": "Pliny the Elder", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Sheldrake", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes Ruehl", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Trebek", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.", "AUTHOR": "David Deutsch", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Pinker", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Highsmith", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Nizer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature abhors a vacuum.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Berliawsky Nevelson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buckley", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Zane Grey", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is above all things lazy.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.", "AUTHOR": "Abdolkarim Soroush", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Herer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientist does not study nature because it is useful he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "By nature, men love newfangledness.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.", "AUTHOR": "George Lincoln Rockwell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.", "AUTHOR": "Yvon Chouinard", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature is what Heaven supplies.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.", "AUTHOR": "Euclid", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Edward Brown", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Heisenberg", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my family. I pretty much got devastated financially and the fans know that I've had some hard times - and that's the nature of loyal fans. They want to see the people that they love and believe in get back on their feet.", "AUTHOR": "Hulk Hogan", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a bit of a rebellious nature.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "nature" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Taffel", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "A mother who is really a mother is never free.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.", "AUTHOR": "Roy L. Smith", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Edwards", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Bright", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Newton-John", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Boulanger", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Gena Lee Nolin", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Broderick", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.", "AUTHOR": "David Frost", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Filner", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.", "AUTHOR": "Hodding Carter", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Sellecca", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jenner", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly LeBrock", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cormier", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Education, like neurosis, begins at home.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Sapirstein", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane and throw up on my shoes just before I go to an awards show just so I know to keep it real.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Cleary", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.", "AUTHOR": "Norma Shearer", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.", "AUTHOR": "Marjorie Holmes", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.", "AUTHOR": "John Sculley", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltrane", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "That's my ideal day, time with my boys.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny G", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Goodman", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Phillippe", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Johnson", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.", "AUTHOR": "June Allyson", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Huppert", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Osmond", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Benigni", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Satir", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!", "AUTHOR": "Louise Hart", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Falco", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Chodorow", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting is an impossible job at any age.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.", "AUTHOR": "Fred G. Gosman", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Jillian Michaels", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Reed", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Phillippe", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bernstein", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but 'Harry Potter', too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don't you?", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltraine", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Carnahan", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Elizondo", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Showalter", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Arlie Russell Hochschild", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Whelchel", "GENRE": "parenting" }, { "QUOTE": "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Abused patience turns to fury.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.", "AUTHOR": "George Savile", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Sitwell", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.", "AUTHOR": "Saadi", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Our patience will achieve more than our force.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius is eternal patience.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Endurance is patience concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "George Jackson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is attentive patience.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kane", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the art of hoping.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Bear patiently with a rival.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware the fury of a patient man.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is patience with the lamp lit.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.", "AUTHOR": "William Golding", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.", "AUTHOR": "Hyman Rickover", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Phaedrus", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.", "AUTHOR": "Bret Harte", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Massinger", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and time do more than strength or passion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "He that can have patience can have what he will.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the companion of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hamilton", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Johnson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Tanner", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.", "AUTHOR": "David Hobson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not the smarts or patience for political office.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.", "AUTHOR": "David Mallet", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.", "AUTHOR": "Cleveland Amory", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.", "AUTHOR": "Holbrook Jackson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "With love and patience, nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.", "AUTHOR": "Khaleda Zia", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle part of faith is patience.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Find patience in the breath of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ryunosuke Satoro", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest power is often simple patience.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.", "AUTHOR": "Eknath Easwaran", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Falcon Scott", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrible with patience.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Spelling", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Dale", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.", "AUTHOR": "James J. Corbett", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.", "AUTHOR": "Hart Crane", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.", "AUTHOR": "Muammar al-Gaddafi", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.", "AUTHOR": "T. Boone Pickens", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience was not my strong point.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.", "AUTHOR": "Lexa Doig", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gleason", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.", "AUTHOR": "Lincoln Diaz-Balart", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bishop", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the secret to good food.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Light", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Ratner", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Cleary", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no patience at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Sugar", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.", "AUTHOR": "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan White", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Milian", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Sturt", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Johnson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've said my patience is not infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Issa", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Jouhaux", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.", "AUTHOR": "Dweezil Zappa", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.", "AUTHOR": "Niki Taylor", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is passion tamed.", "AUTHOR": "Lyman Abbott", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.", "AUTHOR": "Milla Jovovich", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Agutter", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Holt", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Perry", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Rich", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shum, Jr.", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Kael", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.", "AUTHOR": "Cee Lo Green", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience means restraining one's inclinations.", "AUTHOR": "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lantos", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Navarro", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Sisto", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Elliot Paul", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bremer", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The very important thing you should have is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Ma", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Napolitano", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Wil Wheaton", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience has never been my strong suit.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chiklis", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Brendon", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Stuyvesant", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Travis", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't got a lot of patience.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Katzenberg", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Slocum", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is sorrow's salve.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Churchill", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Scott", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.", "AUTHOR": "Paulina Porizkova", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wise", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Brandt", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Wynne", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Harryhausen", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the best medicine.", "AUTHOR": "John Florio", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Raven", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "He preacheth patience that never knew pain.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bohn", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard de Mandeville", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.", "AUTHOR": "Yingluck Shinawatra", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Edward Brown", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Wilkie Collins", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.", "AUTHOR": "Abdus Salam", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Pearson", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.", "AUTHOR": "Yiannis Stournaras", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Ilie Nastase", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.", "AUTHOR": "Bowie Kuhn", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.", "AUTHOR": "Tyrone Power", "GENRE": "patience" }, { "QUOTE": "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene V. Debs", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.", "AUTHOR": "Guy de Maupassant", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Cavell", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.", "AUTHOR": "Lyn Nofziger", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Barton", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Addams", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country.", "AUTHOR": "Sinclair Lewis", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.", "AUTHOR": "George Galloway", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Casals", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ignatieff", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Walpole", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kerry", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Edward Montague", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Aldington", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Bolingbroke", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.", "AUTHOR": "George Borrow", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcom X", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.", "AUTHOR": "Ricardo Montalban", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Thurman", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.", "AUTHOR": "James Bryce", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.", "AUTHOR": "George Galloway", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to light the lights of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadine Dohrn", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Walpole", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Steele Commager", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ignatieff", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ignatieff", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Allen", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Mayhew", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hobsbawm", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Ford", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Croly", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Harding Davis", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.", "AUTHOR": "John Sergeant Wise", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ferguson", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Bowman", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "John Avlon", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Reich", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas E. Mann", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Suzman", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.", "AUTHOR": "Prescott Bush", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.", "AUTHOR": "Greil Marcus", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Kjell Magne Bondevik", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Jackson", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.", "AUTHOR": "Chrissie Hynde", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is the religion of hell.", "AUTHOR": "James Branch Cabell", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "John Woo", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "John Amery", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.", "AUTHOR": "Dominique de Villepin", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa DeLauro", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!", "AUTHOR": "David Starr Jordan", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Knox", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.", "AUTHOR": "William Blum", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.", "AUTHOR": "Vic Snyder", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Bauer", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Charles Winthrop", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.", "AUTHOR": "Will Thomas", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Schuyler Colfax", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.", "AUTHOR": "Francis John McConnell", "GENRE": "patriotism" }, { "QUOTE": "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace begins with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Santana", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A people free to choose will always choose peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is its own reward.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We make war that we may live in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot find peace by avoiding life.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.", "AUTHOR": "J. Donald Walters", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is liberty in tranquillity.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "People always make war when they say they love peace.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Clemenceau", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.", "AUTHOR": "John Andrew Holmes", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.", "AUTHOR": "Silvia Cartwright", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Morris", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.", "AUTHOR": "Zinedine Zidane", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I declare that I will establish peace in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the first thing the angels sang.", "AUTHOR": "John Keble", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Schell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Ferraro", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Power to the peaceful!", "AUTHOR": "Michael Franti", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.", "AUTHOR": "James Montgomery", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Berrigan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Thompson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Black Kettle", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.", "AUTHOR": "David Borenstein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Avoid popularity if you would have peace.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "All we are saying is give peace a chance.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never a good war, or a bad peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Buechner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Sai Baba", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Melody Beattie", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Auslander", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace if possible, truth at all costs.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. DeVos", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "On all the peaks lies peace.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred universal brotherhood, not enmity peace, and not violence.", "AUTHOR": "Pervez Musharraf", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.", "AUTHOR": "Red Cloud", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wilson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "An unjust peace is better than a just war.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of all wars, is peace.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Gaye", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.", "AUTHOR": "Gordie Howe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney King", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole Broyard", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To secure peace is to prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.", "AUTHOR": "Petrarch", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Henry", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather have peace in the world than be President.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Jones", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want peace work for justice.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Johnson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Elizabeth Sangster", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.", "AUTHOR": "Raul Julia", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.", "AUTHOR": "Etty Hillesum", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Gold", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The only peace is being out of earshot.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Cope", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Kwame Nkrumah", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.", "AUTHOR": "John L. Lewis", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Noble", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Tobey Maguire", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Dayan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Linda McCartney", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kinkade", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Garbo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Marshall", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Hampton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.", "AUTHOR": "Yasser Arafat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War makes thieves and peace hangs them.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.", "AUTHOR": "Ugo Betti", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Malcom X", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.", "AUTHOR": "George Ade", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is our gift to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wortley Montagu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at peace.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Farquhar Tupper", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us have peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Cisneros", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmed Ben Bella", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Hammerstein II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't tell me peace has broken out.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A conqueror is always a lover of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Making peace is harder than making war.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Albom", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Hiawatha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jermaine Jackson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.", "AUTHOR": "Wyclef Jean", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, of course, is different from divorce indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Feith", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Akhmatova", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The lessons from the peace process are clear whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Dmitri Mendeleev", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Pipes", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is produced by war.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not want riches, we want peace and love.", "AUTHOR": "Red Cloud", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Olympics for me is love, peace, united.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Tambo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human longs for peace and love.", "AUTHOR": "Hiawatha", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.", "AUTHOR": "Stefan Zweig", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad peace is even worse than war.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Put a bridle on thy tongue set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.", "AUTHOR": "William Drummond", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We love peace, but not peace at any price.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas William Jerrold", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Nobel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen White", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evans", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Bayle", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't kill your way to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.", "AUTHOR": "Yahya Jammeh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Nnamdi Azikiwe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But only art and music have the power to bring peace.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Lear", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Scott-Heron", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We will not have peace by afterthought.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The aggressive, unprovoked acts of violence against Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas are revealing. It is clear they don't want peace, but rather seek the ultimate destruction of Israel.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?", "AUTHOR": "Lorraine Hansberry", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nobel Peace Prize opened up a door in my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working. We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.", "AUTHOR": "Sheila Jackson Lee", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To awake from death is to die in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mitchell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who desires peace prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Most fear stems from sin to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Gaye", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Brown", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.", "AUTHOR": "Kent Nerburn", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.", "AUTHOR": "Prem Rawat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl James", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a peace supporting Jew.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.", "AUTHOR": "Alcee Hastings", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nikita Khrushchev", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Busey", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Dayan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Scott-Heron", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it is peace in our time.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a natural effect of trade.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, I long to be in America again, nay, if I can go home to return no more to Europe, it seems to me that I shall ever enjoy more peace of mind, and even Physical comfort than I can meet with in any portion of the world beside.", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fraser", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Paloma Picasso", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Waltari", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I really am a woman at peace.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.", "AUTHOR": "Yahya Jammeh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Thompson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?", "AUTHOR": "Siobhan Fahey", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.", "AUTHOR": "Jock Sturges", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Arafat was a barrier to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!", "AUTHOR": "Muammar al-Gaddafi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stresemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Benda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas William Jerrold", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My message is all about peace.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray daily... for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Paul O'Neill", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Boone", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.", "AUTHOR": "William Gurnall", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Christie", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land.", "AUTHOR": "William Pennington", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. P. Taylor", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.", "AUTHOR": "Winfield Scott Hancock", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Franti", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Arias Sanchez", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.", "AUTHOR": "Mariel Hemingway", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.", "AUTHOR": "Hassan Nasrallah", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace should provide security. It should be durable. I'm ready to go far in making painful concessions. But there is one thing I will never make any concessions on and that's the security of the Israeli citizens and the very existence of the state of Israel. The Palestinians are losing time.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that. I'm having a ball. I'm not slap happy. I'm just filled up with joy and with peace and with all kinds of things that have eluded me for quite a few years. And they're back and they're thriving.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.", "AUTHOR": "River Phoenix", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Preston", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace without justice is tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen White", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Abba Eban", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I fought for peace in the fifties.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism is war socialism is peace.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Liebknecht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace in the head, peace in the stomach.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.", "AUTHOR": "U Thant", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Yarrow", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I really love peace and quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Sanders", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Salinas", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stresemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Heller", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of all war is peace.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine of Hippo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are laws for peace as well as war.", "AUTHOR": "Titus Livius", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Issa", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Light", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed ElBaradei", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Ulbricht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Sherilyn Fenn", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Donnell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My different personalities leave me in peace now.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Freud", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.", "AUTHOR": "Cecilia Bartoli", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, unity and harmony!", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Freeman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.", "AUTHOR": "Fredrik Bajer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene O'Neill", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.", "AUTHOR": "Brent Scowcroft", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Harrison", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no greater work for humanity than in the cause of peace, which can only be achieved by the earnest efforts of nations and peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.", "AUTHOR": "Frank B. Kellogg", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Walden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very active in the peace movement, still am.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Celio", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Horne", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Quidde", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful.", "AUTHOR": "George Wald", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Hassan Nasrallah", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Lytton Strachey", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Burgess", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In time of peace prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchan", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney King", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.", "AUTHOR": "Al D'Amato", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southey", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Keith", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmed Yassin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.", "AUTHOR": "Rick James", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Watts", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.", "AUTHOR": "Michael W. Smith", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ignatieff", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is important for Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.", "AUTHOR": "Xavier Becerra", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.", "AUTHOR": "Boutros Boutros-Ghali", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Kuyper", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Shapiro", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Liebknecht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Liebknecht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Falcon Scott", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Lehrer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Finkelstein", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is a menace to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition that's how we bring peace.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Bell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Thomas", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.", "AUTHOR": "King George V", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Ferry", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gere", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace and not war is the father of all things.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Marchant", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Hanson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In addition to serving overseas, the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.", "AUTHOR": "Martin McGuinness", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.", "AUTHOR": "John McCain", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Shipley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Ferraro", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.", "AUTHOR": "Gunter Grass", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Kenichi Fukui", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.", "AUTHOR": "Zebulon Pike", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Walton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "My third appeal is to my fellow citizens in all countries: Help us to establish lasting peace in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Eisaku Sato", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Holbrooke", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Holbrooke", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Holbrooke", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.", "AUTHOR": "Thurston Moore", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Morsi", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Del Rey", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Buchner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Nastassja Kinski", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!", "AUTHOR": "Georg Buchner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Stresemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Cassin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Hearst", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Love", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Geithner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Muste", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.", "AUTHOR": "Goran Persson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Isaac of Nineveh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.", "AUTHOR": "James Q. Wilson", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Give peace a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Yitzhak Rabin", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Diego Maradona", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.", "AUTHOR": "Olga Korbut", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.", "AUTHOR": "George Grosz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Indiana", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.", "AUTHOR": "Park Geun-hye", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Love", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Beattie", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed ElBaradei", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Bradley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.", "AUTHOR": "Gifford Pinchot", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.", "AUTHOR": "Islom Karimov", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Together, we can create a world in which peace is real in which every human being can thrive in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Abdallah II", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.", "AUTHOR": "Ulrich Beck", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Williams", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Hemsley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.", "AUTHOR": "Sivananda", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.", "AUTHOR": "William McKinley", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.", "AUTHOR": "David Lloyd", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hannity", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Ulbricht", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lerner", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Rall", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmar Gabriel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Granz", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.", "AUTHOR": "George Armstrong Custer", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.", "AUTHOR": "William Beveridge", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Sterling", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We need new partnerships for peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "We need new partnerships in fighting terrorism and building peace.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "Lee H. Hamilton", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cobden", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Burdon", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Hagel", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Branch", "GENRE": "peace" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Time spent with cats is never wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Caras", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The dog is the god of frolic.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs are my favorite people.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dean Anderson", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The smallest feline is a masterpiece.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Never wear anything that panics the cat.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Corelli", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Even cats grow lonely and anxious.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.", "AUTHOR": "Rod McKuen", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Herford", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.", "AUTHOR": "Lefty Gomez", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Brown", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Scott", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been mad about cats.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.", "AUTHOR": "Cleveland Amory", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Lewis", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southey", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.", "AUTHOR": "August Strindberg", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Dale", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Dana", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Repplier", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats don't like change without their consent.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Caras", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.", "AUTHOR": "William H. Macy", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.", "AUTHOR": "Angus Young", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Reagan", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Ralph Augustine", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Just watching my cats can make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Cole", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Repplier", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.", "AUTHOR": "Christine McVie", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rivers", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Norton", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.", "AUTHOR": "W. L. George", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.", "AUTHOR": "Hippolyte Taine", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I love cats.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Van Patten", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.", "AUTHOR": "Nafisa Joseph", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Many cats are the death of the mouse.", "AUTHOR": "Kaspar Hauser", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Derr Biggers", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Kittens can happen to anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Gallico", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.", "AUTHOR": "John Peers", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Lorenz", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Morrison", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Gallacher", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sparks", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Packing is my pet hate.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Pilkington", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!", "AUTHOR": "Emily VanCamp", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Stiefvater", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Hall", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Pilkington", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Duhamel", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Neville", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Chocola", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.", "AUTHOR": "Brian P. Cleary", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Lowe", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.", "AUTHOR": "Max Cannon", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Wright", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Way Teale", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bay", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Holmes", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.", "AUTHOR": "George Eads", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.", "AUTHOR": "John Bacon", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Hodgson", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Pollock", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.", "AUTHOR": "Beverley Mitchell", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Stevens", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Rudd", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Ferrara", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Theroux", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "Pet stores just sell their animals.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rutherford", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Boston", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Chambers", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Howerton", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Gris", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Anderson", "GENRE": "pet" }, { "QUOTE": "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet can survive everything but a misprint.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is what gets lost in translation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To have great poets, there must be great audiences.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Always be a poet, even in prose.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem is never finished, only abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poet doesn't invent. He listens.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "God is the perfect poet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.", "AUTHOR": "John Cage", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.", "AUTHOR": "David Carradine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.", "AUTHOR": "Yevgeny Yevtushenko", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Engle", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry: the best words in the best order.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Rukeyser", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "A. E. Housman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single soul is a poem.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Franti", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Dunn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Musset", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment of change is the only poem.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Gray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.", "AUTHOR": "M. H. Abrams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Penn Warren", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Trilling", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Moore", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Bergamin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I like poems that are little games.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore Quasimodo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Khamarov", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.", "AUTHOR": "Stephane Mallarme", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.", "AUTHOR": "John Fowles", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Levine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Muldoon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Olson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Simic", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Harrison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.", "AUTHOR": "James Schuyler", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Penn Warren", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rosen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Simic", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Gabor", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I read poetry to save time.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine is bottled poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not easy to define poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality is everything in art and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Superstition is the poetry of life.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the poetry of the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should poetry have to make sense?", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry of the earth is never dead.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Ginsberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.", "AUTHOR": "Robert W. Service", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dirac", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Andres Segovia", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The crown of literature is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Plath", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.", "AUTHOR": "Satyajit Ray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.", "AUTHOR": "A. E. Housman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really liked poetry readings I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others it's for others to use.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Ginsberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "John Cage", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kerry", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Dancing is the poetry of the foot.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Walker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.", "AUTHOR": "Federico Fellini", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Erik Satie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.", "AUTHOR": "Julio Cortazar", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Winehouse", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Ginsberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Sondheim", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Waters", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a kind of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ortega y Gasset", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Giovanni", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Simmons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry lies its way to the truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Midler", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.", "AUTHOR": "Yevgeny Yevtushenko", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Johnson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfred Owen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Brooks Atkinson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot happens by accident in poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.", "AUTHOR": "Beverley Nichols", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.", "AUTHOR": "James Gates Percival", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.", "AUTHOR": "Antonin Artaud", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the deification of reality.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Sitwell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a great poetry fan.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.", "AUTHOR": "David Lee Roth", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Palmer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Fry", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Morgan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffery Deaver", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abrahams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.", "AUTHOR": "George Farquhar", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Cuomo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Motion", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Derrida", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Colbert", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, prose walks, poetry dances.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eberhart", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.", "AUTHOR": "Callan McAuliffe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Pasternak", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Amis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Pinker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Ginsberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald MacLeish", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.", "AUTHOR": "David Antin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.", "AUTHOR": "David Antin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Knopfler", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Lynne", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Thomas", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.", "AUTHOR": "John Millington Synge", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jarmusch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jarmusch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. Harvey", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. Harvey", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Ochs", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholson Baker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholson Baker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholson Baker", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffery Deaver", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffery Deaver", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Young", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Young", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Dunn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Jon Williams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Holzer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry and prayer are very similar.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Serra", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Prose talks and poetry sings.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.", "AUTHOR": "Macklemore", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is life distilled.", "AUTHOR": "Gwendolyn Brooks", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Potter", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.", "AUTHOR": "Ajay Naidu", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is composing for the breath.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Davison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Callow", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.", "AUTHOR": "David Hare", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.", "AUTHOR": "David Hare", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Hines", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfred Owen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore Quasimodo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore Quasimodo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.", "AUTHOR": "Salvatore Quasimodo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tippett", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Dickinson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Hamilton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Raoul Vaneigem", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Eloquence is the poetry of prose.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.", "AUTHOR": "Teresa Palmer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Westwick", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think poetry is best read to oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Rickie Lee Jones", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Gunn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Gunn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Gunn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Wakoski", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Strand", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Glazer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Mathews", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Mathews", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Mathews", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Dunmore", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Townes Earle", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Townes Earle", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Foote", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Foote", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Thurston Moore", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Lynch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ishmael Reed", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is all nouns and verbs.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Moore", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Moore", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.", "AUTHOR": "Asghar Farhadi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Jennings", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.", "AUTHOR": "Tobias Wolff", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Mosley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Vigny", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Mitchell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Mitchell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dirac", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby McFerrin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.", "AUTHOR": "A. E. Housman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Neville", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.", "AUTHOR": "Janine Turner", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Prelutsky", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.", "AUTHOR": "David Amram", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Gyorgy Ligeti", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hecht", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.", "AUTHOR": "Hamlin Garland", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald MacLeish", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald MacLeish", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.", "AUTHOR": "A. R. Ammons", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Levine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Levine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Levine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Levine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Levine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Bowman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Goytisolo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Muldoon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Muldoon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Muldoon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Muldoon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Olson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Manzarek", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Auster", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Auster", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.", "AUTHOR": "John Ashbery", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Summers", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Haring", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Adams", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Leigh", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Cunningham", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Taymor", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Getty", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.", "AUTHOR": "Compay Segundo", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Saatchi", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "John Drinkwater", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Georg Hamann", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.", "AUTHOR": "Henry R. Luce", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Greenblatt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.", "AUTHOR": "James Dickey", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.", "AUTHOR": "James Dickey", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.", "AUTHOR": "James Dickey", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Rukeyser", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Rukeyser", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is its own medium it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Gordon", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.", "AUTHOR": "Tea Obreht", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Harris", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Clifton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.", "AUTHOR": "David Knopfler", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Jameson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Auberjonois", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Nathalie Sarraute", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.", "AUTHOR": "Knut Hamsun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.", "AUTHOR": "Knut Hamsun", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hamilton Finlay", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hamilton Finlay", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hamilton Finlay", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hamilton Finlay", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Merchant", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Andrews", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Aleixandre", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Bodenheim", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Prout", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Cockburn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.", "AUTHOR": "Archie Shepp", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kronenberger", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Newsted", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Joyce", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.", "AUTHOR": "Martin C. Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole Broyard", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a totally different art than film.", "AUTHOR": "Stan Brakhage", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Wilson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Creeley", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Treadaway", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to write poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Shayne Ward", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.", "AUTHOR": "Chrisette Michele", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Murray", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.", "AUTHOR": "James Branch Cabell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Klein", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Armitage", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Armitage", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Armitage", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.", "AUTHOR": "Louis-Ferdinand Celine", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?", "AUTHOR": "John C. Ransom", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Ransom", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Manley Hopkins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Jarrell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The cliche is dead poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Brenan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick White", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.", "AUTHOR": "J. Courtney Sullivan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.", "AUTHOR": "J. Courtney Sullivan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.", "AUTHOR": "J. Courtney Sullivan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!", "AUTHOR": "Frank Iero", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Rash", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.", "AUTHOR": "Maxine Hong Kingston", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Johnson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.", "AUTHOR": "John Masefield", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.", "AUTHOR": "John Masefield", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Shapiro", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Maritain", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "Hart Crane", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Riding", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Riding", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Riding", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Harrison", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.", "AUTHOR": "Tomas Transtromer", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor McDonald", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Jameson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Holt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Rosenberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Rosenberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Rosenberg", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.", "AUTHOR": "Roger McGough", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger McGough", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Lee", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.", "AUTHOR": "James Schuyler", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.", "AUTHOR": "F. L. Lucas", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "William Collins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hass", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.", "AUTHOR": "Flea", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Lynch", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training.", "AUTHOR": "David Hunt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.", "AUTHOR": "Ally Condie", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Graves", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.", "AUTHOR": "Misha Collins", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Adamson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Adamson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Adamson", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Perri", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hope", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.", "AUTHOR": "Merritt Wever", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Ramon Jimenez", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.", "AUTHOR": "George Oppen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "George Oppen", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.", "AUTHOR": "Norman O. Brown", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Mitchell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Mitchell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Braque", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!", "AUTHOR": "Tristan Wilds", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.", "AUTHOR": "John Betjeman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgos Seferis", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Penn Warren", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Walsh", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.", "AUTHOR": "J. Carter Brown", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Mumford", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.", "AUTHOR": "James Martineau", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hecht", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What is poetry which does not save nations or people?", "AUTHOR": "Czeslaw Milosz", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Redgrave", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Porter", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.", "AUTHOR": "John Denham", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Taupin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Gotlieb", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Sonja Sohn", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.", "AUTHOR": "Jhene Aiko", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Fox", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Spender", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.", "AUTHOR": "Basil Bunting", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.", "AUTHOR": "John Ashbery", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Fernand Leger", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry must be made by all and not by one.", "AUTHOR": "Comte de Lautreamont", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy K. Smith", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.", "AUTHOR": "David Lehman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Reynolds Price", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.", "AUTHOR": "John Andrew Holmes", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a sort of homecoming.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Celan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Clampitt", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Clarence Stedman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Stedman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Dowden", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Galway Kinnell", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.", "AUTHOR": "William Rose Benet", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Logan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "W. S. Merwin", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Edward Housman", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.", "AUTHOR": "J. Milton Hayes", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Sarafyan", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Clifton", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Seurat", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wesselmann", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, poetry is always a search for order.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Jennings", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Douglas", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.", "AUTHOR": "Zona Gale", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Smart", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.", "AUTHOR": "Toi Derricotte", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Glancy", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.", "AUTHOR": "John Colville", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "I write poetry in order to live more fully.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Rodriguez", "GENRE": "poetry" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool and his money are soon elected.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics have no relation to morals.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.", "AUTHOR": "Charles W. Pickering", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Simon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics the middle way is none at all.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.", "AUTHOR": "Caskie Stinnett", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Armour", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Glass", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics nothing is contemptible.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Harding", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Hannan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.", "AUTHOR": "William Randolph", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of getting things done is to act!", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Levant", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Pollack", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Bird Johnson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is governed by opinion.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Barnard", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important political office is that of the private citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.", "AUTHOR": "Hyman Rickover", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Reich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Zell Miller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.", "AUTHOR": "John Morley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.", "AUTHOR": "Deng Xiaoping", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Nash Baldwin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.", "AUTHOR": "Spiro T. Agnew", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Voting is a civic sacrament.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Hesburgh", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.", "AUTHOR": "J. William Fulbright", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.", "AUTHOR": "Abba Eban", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Romano", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.", "AUTHOR": "William Gilbert", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.", "AUTHOR": "Gerhard Schroder", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Stewart Udall", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Hart", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Greenfield", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Martin L. Gross", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas P. O'Neill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Wallace", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Durbin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Isakson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is democracy at its ugliest.", "AUTHOR": "Paddy Chayefsky", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of controlling your environment.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics stupidity is not a handicap.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is applesauce.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't been very active in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a truth is better than no politics.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Finality is not the language of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no gambling like politics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.", "AUTHOR": "John Avlon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Robinson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "From politics, it was an easy step to silence.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are not the task of a Christian.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I played by the rules of politics as I found them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In Pakistan politics is hereditary.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Clark", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.", "AUTHOR": "Ricardo Montalban", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the ultimate tool of politics.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrne", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Chisholm", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Davies", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You do the policy, I'll do the politics.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Alinsky", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.", "AUTHOR": "Khaleda Zia", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics disgusts me.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought of politics as a profession.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Way", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything's possible in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shearer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.", "AUTHOR": "John Breaux", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the continuation of politics by other means.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Brown", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is just show business for ugly people.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ehrlich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think politics come out of psychology.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never have been involved in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot mix sports with politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't follow politics much.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the womb in which war develops.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Frith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not really my thing.", "AUTHOR": "John Malkovich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Sobran", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.", "AUTHOR": "C. Northcote Parkinson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Krauthammer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not in politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't compromise my principles for politics.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Without alienation, there can be no politics.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Tancredo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Lamont", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Byrd", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a blood sport.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics you learn to always smile.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never got into politics for it to be a career.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not an exact science.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.", "AUTHOR": "William Howard Taft", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.", "AUTHOR": "Rob McKenna", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like politics.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Noonan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Crowley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't go into politics unless you want to win.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand the process of politics and the game of television.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Beaumarchais", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Lester Bangs", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Edna Ferber", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few people go into politics to be reviled.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Mixing humor and politics is something that works.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of the next best.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics ruins the character.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the art of the possible.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Panetta", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not about money.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not about power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, there ought to be politics in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Negative politics have always been around.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lautenberg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Edison", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is show business for ugly people.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Begala", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a highly tribal business.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get involved in record label politics.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics makes me sick.", "AUTHOR": "William Howard Taft", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "William Howard Taft", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Cruise O'Brien", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.", "AUTHOR": "E. L. Doctorow", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.", "AUTHOR": "John Avlon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't miss politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Sauckel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine the Great", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.", "AUTHOR": "David Walliams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Buck", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the enemy of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.", "AUTHOR": "Winfield Scott Hancock", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is irreparable in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lee Jones", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Sayle", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People feel politics isn't about their lives.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything about my politics has been about the future.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Adenauer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Noonan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gahagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.", "AUTHOR": "Kathie Lee Gifford", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential ingredient of politics is timing.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Trudeau", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Shawn", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Mustaine", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The movies were custard compared to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.", "AUTHOR": "Don Rickles", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Norquist", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lehrer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.", "AUTHOR": "C. Northcote Parkinson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Does politics have to be injected into everything?", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Gossip is easy, politics is hard.", "AUTHOR": "Tabitha Soren", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to force my politics on my readers.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Marat Safin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A week is a long time in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You should never ask actors about politics.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.", "AUTHOR": "Pervez Musharraf", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Tabucchi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Cowell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the science of urgencies.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Parker", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Ingraham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.", "AUTHOR": "Susan George", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Farrell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.", "AUTHOR": "Susan George", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.", "AUTHOR": "James Carville", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Scott", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer M. Granholm", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is gut commercials are gut.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stiglitz", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope springs eternal, even in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Ifill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics makes strange bedfellows.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dudley Warner", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Sheen", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm no expert on American politics.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCarthy", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.", "AUTHOR": "Claire McCaskill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Only", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what'll happen in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Claire McCaskill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Willis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Rotton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.", "AUTHOR": "James MacGregor Burns", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Siriano", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.", "AUTHOR": "Rip Torn", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Scott", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hightower", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, there are no friends.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I never let my politics supersede my manners.", "AUTHOR": "Darren Criss", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lamm", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Bayh", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Al Franken", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.", "AUTHOR": "Moira Kelly", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.", "AUTHOR": "Al Franken", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.", "AUTHOR": "Big Boi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Sidey", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Weyrich", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.", "AUTHOR": "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Fo", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "All politics is local.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas P. O'Neill", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Holder", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Galifianakis", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.", "AUTHOR": "Howie Carr", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.", "AUTHOR": "Fred F. Fielding", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Albarn", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Fineman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Trudeau", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.", "AUTHOR": "Amitabh Bachchan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Chenoweth", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.", "AUTHOR": "David Guterson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty it fights dirty.", "AUTHOR": "John Mellencamp", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a people business. I like people.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Bush", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.", "AUTHOR": "Emmeline Pankhurst", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.", "AUTHOR": "John Green", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Walton", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People like passion in politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics swings like a pendulum.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.", "AUTHOR": "John Morley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.", "AUTHOR": "John Morley", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.", "AUTHOR": "James Hansen", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'", "AUTHOR": "John Sayles", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfrid Laurier", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Kjell Magne Bondevik", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Christie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Loder", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Money in politics is a huge issue.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Feingold", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Morris", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.", "AUTHOR": "Whitfield Diffie", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Morris", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Gregg", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Sonny Perdue", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ackerman", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.", "AUTHOR": "George Crook", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Sevareid", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Udall", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "politics" }, { "QUOTE": "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. DeVos", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive anything is better than negative nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.", "AUTHOR": "Yannick Noah", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.", "AUTHOR": "Willard Scott", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Adams", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.", "AUTHOR": "George Foreman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Bieber", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The most positive men are the most credulous.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "God never ends anything on a negative God always ends on a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Latifah", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Clay", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Delete the negative accentuate the positive!", "AUTHOR": "Donna Karan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Rotten", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "John Newcombe", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Pitbull", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Mena Suvari", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Bender", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Comaneci", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Burke", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.", "AUTHOR": "Yao Ming", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Koslow", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, I try to be a positive role model.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jenner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.", "AUTHOR": "Chelsea Clinton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.", "AUTHOR": "King Edward VIII", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.", "AUTHOR": "Wade Boggs", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Selye", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Neal", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.", "AUTHOR": "Cuba Gooding, Jr.", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Raoul Vaneigem", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Comaneci", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesn't take any brains to complain.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Cook", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie du Toit", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Gore", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.", "AUTHOR": "Isaiah Berlin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Cameron", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Elliott", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "How much do you as a consumer value a positive experience with a brand or its customer service department? How willing are you to share that with your friends? How inclined are you to let that person know that you're interaction with them was positive?", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Jaworski", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Accent your positive and delete your negative.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Karan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.", "AUTHOR": "Albert J. Nock", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Stark", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Abbott", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.", "AUTHOR": "Diablo Cody", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Roberts", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Cattrall", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Williams", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Berry", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Yilmaz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cram", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Ullman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Johns", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!", "AUTHOR": "Dante Hall", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Marino", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an un-healable positive optimist.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Rieu", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Drescher", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.", "AUTHOR": "Len Wein", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to come across as a positive person.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Rockne", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be a positive force for young girls.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Simmel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?", "AUTHOR": "Rick Danko", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a lot of positive people around me.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Alesi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.", "AUTHOR": "Rosabeth Moss Kanter", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had God, but now I want to go back to church for the sense of community and that feeling of positive thinking, a place where I can think about being a better person.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Guarini", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.", "AUTHOR": "John Hall", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Scott-Heron", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Paisley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Blanchard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.", "AUTHOR": "Aishwarya Rai", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My Botswana books are positive, and I've never really sought to deny that. They are positive. They present a very positive picture of the country. And I think that that is perfectly defensible given that there is so much written about Africa which is entirely negative.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Redknapp", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.", "AUTHOR": "Ivor Novello", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cumming", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Carrere", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Horowitz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.", "AUTHOR": "Britt Ekland", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Rugova", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.", "AUTHOR": "Jude Law", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Wicks", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Dalio", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Emeagwali", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want always to be positive.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Versace", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.", "AUTHOR": "Alonzo Mourning", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Farmer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Lamar", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard G. Scott", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Weldon", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Roddick", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to think of the positive that's how I cope.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do something dark or small. I love independent films. I love emotional scenes. I love people who are struggling with something. I think it's just the juxtaposition to my incredibly happy, positive demeanor.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Offerman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Jackson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.", "AUTHOR": "Geddy Lee", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Mahony", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Beuys", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Loud", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.", "AUTHOR": "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Reno", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Marie Presley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was always the support. I can always go out to her and she'll always find the positive in things.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.", "AUTHOR": "Feist", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.", "AUTHOR": "Feist", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Gillespie", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "David Hasselhoff", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.", "AUTHOR": "Dannii Minogue", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Evans", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.", "AUTHOR": "John Perkins", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.", "AUTHOR": "David Zucker", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the most positive person.", "AUTHOR": "Penny Marshall", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.", "AUTHOR": "John Schlesinger", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Mann", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Sorvino", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Paul", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Swoopes", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.", "AUTHOR": "Bob McDonnell", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Fleming", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriela Sabatini", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Hill", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Emerson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Krist Novoselic", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Laliberte", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.", "AUTHOR": "John Elway", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.", "AUTHOR": "John Elway", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.", "AUTHOR": "David Kay", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Rugova", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.", "AUTHOR": "Taye Diggs", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Lennon", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Cope", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I took some me time. I think that's a really important thing to do for yourself, especially in this business. And now I feel like I'm in a really good, positive place in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Ashlee Simpson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Wicks", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Agutter", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Black", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Bergkamp", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kane", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, you know, I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean, Larry, my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean, I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lampley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Ireland", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lopez", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has positive and negative consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Farrah Fawcett", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.", "AUTHOR": "Terence Stamp", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so positive.", "AUTHOR": "Rickie Lee Jones", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Alan Sekulow", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Keating", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Surround yourself with positive people.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Allison", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Zhirinovsky", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kantner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Norville", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Norville", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Brolin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.", "AUTHOR": "William John Wills", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in those crises, they showed negative acts and the Japanese and Turks were ashamed.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.", "AUTHOR": "Vito Fossella", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Hart", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Cornish", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.", "AUTHOR": "John Astin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Reno", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney King", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Stark", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Stark", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Stark", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.", "AUTHOR": "John McDonald", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Williams", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. We're doing a better job planning. We're closer - more closely aligned with the Department of Defense. These things would be positive things if we were to have another attack.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chertoff", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Mann", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Beckenbauer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Beckenbauer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.", "AUTHOR": "Kohei Uchimura", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Wonder", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Gerard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Gardner", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Larsen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Larsen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous privilege to work on a show that has the power to touch people's lives in such a positive way. The fan mail and the e-mail certainly reflect that.", "AUTHOR": "Roma Downey", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.", "AUTHOR": "Anatoly Karpov", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Riley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.", "AUTHOR": "Gray Davis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.", "AUTHOR": "Kyan Douglas", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie Perez", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go.", "AUTHOR": "Juice Newton", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McClellan", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Dayne", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.", "AUTHOR": "Parminder Nagra", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.", "AUTHOR": "Leif Garrett", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Owen", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Robert MacNeil", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.", "AUTHOR": "George Takei", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Haring", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Derringer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.", "AUTHOR": "Gottfried Leibniz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Scottoline", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Wiseman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Nile Rodgers", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Hayes", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't believe in positive changes anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Navalny", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Martelly", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Fishman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Renzi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Greene", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Morris", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Lamm", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Wallice", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?", "AUTHOR": "Marc Wallice", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Wallice", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Wallice", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Kim", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.", "AUTHOR": "Lili Taylor", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.", "AUTHOR": "John Thune", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Enos", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rancic", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Rabin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Nachman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Andrew Taylor", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Kasem", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.", "AUTHOR": "Garret Dillahunt", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has things that they don't love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Morsi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McCallum", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Jenni Rivera", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Hubbard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Evanovich", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Winchester", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ian", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.", "AUTHOR": "George Crook", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hybels", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.", "AUTHOR": "Hale Irwin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.", "AUTHOR": "Stacie Orrico", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Flynn", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.", "AUTHOR": "David Strathairn", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing is to stay positive.", "AUTHOR": "Saku Koivu", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.", "AUTHOR": "Saku Koivu", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.", "AUTHOR": "Mark McGwire", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.", "AUTHOR": "Mark E. Hyman", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Roybal-Allard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Lobo", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Miller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Miller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Deschanel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Gibbs", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Gibbs", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Olson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Garton Ash", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Silvan Shalom", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all positive energy from me, man.", "AUTHOR": "Swizz Beatz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Brydon", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Shewfelt", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Be positive and laugh at everything.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Roach", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.", "AUTHOR": "Shinzo Abe", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that it is very important that we have hopefully averted what would have been the most substantial headwind of all, which is a default for the first time in our history, and that that will contribute to a more positive environment that we hope will allow for greater growth and job creation.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Carney", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective it reminds you to feel.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Fleetwood", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.", "AUTHOR": "Aloe Blacc", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Richardson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.", "AUTHOR": "Will Friedle", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Williams", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Rusedski", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of younger fans, obviously the choices I make often influence them. But having said that, it's kind of the best motivation in the world to stay positive and make good choices.", "AUTHOR": "James Maslow", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.", "AUTHOR": "Domenico Dolce", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Flo Rida", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Vazquez", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.", "AUTHOR": "Imre Lakatos", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.", "AUTHOR": "Imre Lakatos", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.", "AUTHOR": "Patsy Kensit", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Ann Miller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Kramer", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Kasum", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.", "AUTHOR": "Maxine Hong Kingston", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ramos-Horta", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Knight", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Garces", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Bledel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.", "AUTHOR": "Erskine Bowles", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.", "AUTHOR": "Thad Cochran", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Antin", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.", "AUTHOR": "Ving Rhames", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Antonoff", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.", "AUTHOR": "Martin O'Malley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.", "AUTHOR": "Saskia de Brauw", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "He is a very positive captain he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.", "AUTHOR": "David Gower", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Macomber", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hamill", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Neil", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Francis I", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Wynne", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Baker", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Stratten", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term, the United States could greatly benefit Islam by uniquely freeing the religion from government constraints and permitting it to evolve in a positive, modern direction. But that's the long term.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Pipes", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "They've been fairly positive, as firm as they could be in regards to the derivatives operations in Montreal. We didn't sense that there was a hesitation about it. But things change.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Charest", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.", "AUTHOR": "Don Nelson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'", "AUTHOR": "Mark Feuerstein", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Thomas", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Nelson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Rees", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Pace", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Rudolf Hess", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Reid", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Littrell", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Littrell", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.", "AUTHOR": "George Miller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.", "AUTHOR": "Rob McKenna", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Cudi", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.", "AUTHOR": "William Scott", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Coventry", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Coventry", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Coventry", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Ashley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ferguson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Lightfoot", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Heller", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.", "AUTHOR": "Reeve Carney", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Cashmore", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Jordyn Wieber", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Lowe", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas R. Cech", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.", "AUTHOR": "Mary C. Jones", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Jablonski", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Pope", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to give positive energy in all my shows.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Jones", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women.", "AUTHOR": "Atifete Jahjaga", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.", "AUTHOR": "Doutzen Kroes", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.", "AUTHOR": "Jeroen Dijsselbloem", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Mendel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.", "AUTHOR": "Deryck Whibley", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.", "AUTHOR": "Manal al-Sharif", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Ortiz", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Only fools are positive.", "AUTHOR": "Moe Howard", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Lema", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The deaf community is hungry to see itself in the most positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Lupe Ontiveros", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.", "AUTHOR": "Carl D. Anderson", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.", "AUTHOR": "Henrietta Szold", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Graff", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Ledecky", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Frankel", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Abramoff", "GENRE": "positive" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is power.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is the great aphrodisiac.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The eye sees what it brings the power to see.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is powerful and it prevails.", "AUTHOR": "Sojourner Truth", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever is new to power is always harsh.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Excessive fear is always powerless.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is dangerous unless you have humility.", "AUTHOR": "Richard J. Daley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sarandon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I cured with the power that came through me.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the people and the power of reason are one.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Buchner", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest power is often simple patience.", "AUTHOR": "E. Joseph Cossman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.", "AUTHOR": "Phaedrus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.", "AUTHOR": "Oskar Schindler", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Rockefeller", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not about power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine the Great", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is paradoxical.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only power you have is the word no.", "AUTHOR": "Frances McDormand", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.", "AUTHOR": "Bill O'Reilly", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.", "AUTHOR": "William Plomer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest power is not money power, but political power.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power ought to serve as a check to power.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power in America today is control of the means of communication.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin F. Wade", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Prestige is the shadow of money and power.", "AUTHOR": "C. Wright Mills", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Simmons", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Tannen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Hill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. P. Taylor", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every crisis offers you extra desired power.", "AUTHOR": "William Moulton Marston", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.", "AUTHOR": "Everett Dirksen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Young", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the power of weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buckley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Swetchine", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Heilbrun", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Sevareid", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.", "AUTHOR": "William Pitt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to have power is to take it.", "AUTHOR": "Boss Tweed", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The law has no power over heroes.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Lennox", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis B. Smedes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not alluring to pure minds.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing external to you has any power over you.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power and speed be hands and feet.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.", "AUTHOR": "George Meredith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We have it in our power to begin the world over again.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Dreiser", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Marsha Sinetar", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The measure of a man is what he does with power.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When you blame others, you give up your power to change.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hopkins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes de Mille", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberal: a power worshipper without power.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.", "AUTHOR": "Malcom X", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To live happily is an inward power of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of imagination makes us infinite.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Aoki", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is mans greatest power!", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Graham Bell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is generated through your own will power.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has great power should use it lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is power a smile is its sword.", "AUTHOR": "John Ray", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Blanchard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Vinoba Bhave", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in delegating power.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real power comes out of a long rifle.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn French", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kagame", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power gravitates to the man who knows how.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust anybody with power.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Rothbard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no limit to the power of loving.", "AUTHOR": "John Morton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power to do good is also the power to do harm.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge and human power are synonymous.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Morgan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Berlin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.", "AUTHOR": "Cornelius Nepos", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Bandura", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McLeod Bethune", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Zimbardo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Calmness is the cradle of power.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Holland", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Zatopek", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander the Great", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Margaret Cameron", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Money: power at its most liquid.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Castaneda", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Tambo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Frankfurter", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.", "AUTHOR": "Nido Qubein", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.", "AUTHOR": "Buenaventura Durruti", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pickford", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ende", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Black", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.", "AUTHOR": "William Cobbett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power to question is the basis of all human progress.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The incentive to ambition is the love of power.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Rose", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.", "AUTHOR": "Vine Deloria, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hall", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kubrick", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People demand freedom only when they have no power.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.", "AUTHOR": "Sitting Bull", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Cornwell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.", "AUTHOR": "David Brinkley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Words derive their power from the original word.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Humphrey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Coue", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kruger", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Scott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.", "AUTHOR": "John Quincy Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hughes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.", "AUTHOR": "William Gaddis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Harper", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Winter", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Segall", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Cudworth", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.", "AUTHOR": "Eleonora Duse", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin F. Wade", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Charles A. Beard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.", "AUTHOR": "Spiro T. Agnew", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Holland", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A word after a word after a word is power.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.", "AUTHOR": "Madame de Stael", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Thompson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Blaine Lee", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The point of power is always in the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Louise L. Hay", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Prince", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.", "AUTHOR": "Henry George", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.", "AUTHOR": "Nadine Gordimer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The law always limits every power it gives.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrix Potter", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Engle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Order is power.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.", "AUTHOR": "George Mason", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Hazlitt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rubin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Stark", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.", "AUTHOR": "William Henry Harrison", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing the right thing has power.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "John Acton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Taylor", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Words, without power, is mere philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantona", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Fermat", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Danzig", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Thomas", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Fight the power that be. Fight the power.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.", "AUTHOR": "John Kasich", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.", "AUTHOR": "Leif Garrett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of visibility can never be underestimated.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Barthes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.", "AUTHOR": "William Booth", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power has to be insecure to be responsive.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.", "AUTHOR": "J. William Fulbright", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is the ability to get things done.", "AUTHOR": "Rosabeth Moss Kanter", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Kuhn", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Ehud Olmert", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Burton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Flores", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin Pierce", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Tavis Smiley", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Chodorow", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power without abuse loses its charm.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Blanchard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.", "AUTHOR": "Origen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Basil", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.", "AUTHOR": "David Frost", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Jarrett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Hodge", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Love Peacock", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Gleason", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Norville", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is in itself a power.", "AUTHOR": "Garet Garrett", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.", "AUTHOR": "William Pitt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Whitney", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.", "AUTHOR": "Ida Tarbell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Mariska Hargitay", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is this power that comes with being famous.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Evans Hughes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.", "AUTHOR": "Ossie Davis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Brown", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "Ofra Haza", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .", "AUTHOR": "Anne Bronte", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Davis Kasl", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.", "AUTHOR": "Manuel Puig", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture follows power.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Scott", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Kaunda", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.", "AUTHOR": "James Naismith", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Joy Page", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Biology always beats will power.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider... That thought was our power.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Chamberlain", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.", "AUTHOR": "Craig T. Nelson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Malthus", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "power" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Sweat", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Assumptions are the termites of relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Winkler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Hudson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsten Dunst", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.", "AUTHOR": "Pietro Aretino", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anthony", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Murdock", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a relationship you have to open yourself up.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Cruz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Gottfried", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Chernow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Ellison", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.", "AUTHOR": "Anjelica Huston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Faithfull", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Kasum", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.", "AUTHOR": "T. Berry Brazelton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Storr", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Death ends a life, not a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Lemon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Pratt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives us relatives thank God, we can choose our friends.", "AUTHOR": "Addison Mizner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Baez", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Daisy Fuentes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Caleb Carr", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.", "AUTHOR": "Susannah York", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I could see myself in a relationship with a girl Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.", "AUTHOR": "A. Philip Randolph", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely think anything I'd be in now is a permanent relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Harrison", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Glaser", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a good relationship is about collaboration.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.", "AUTHOR": "May Sarton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Kristel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Sellecca", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Simmel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what people say about my relationship I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship to me is never about the romance.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Derringer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.", "AUTHOR": "Cicely Tyson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Apter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Fiennes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy the characters and their relationship make it sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cormier", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, and make having a personal transforming relationship with the resurrected Christ the touchtone of their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.", "AUTHOR": "Kina Grannis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really a relationship expert but ...I'm an expert on manhood and what men think.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you're in a committed relationship, unless you have some sort of an understanding, monogamy is something that should exist.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Faye Bakker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Emil Ludwig", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Shandling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer O'Neill", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Schaeffer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to write with people I have a relationship with otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.", "AUTHOR": "John Frusciante", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Manny Pacquiao", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The establishment wonders why we can't get more of the black vote. It's because it's not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don't think alike. Most black people just vote alike.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Ashmore", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.", "AUTHOR": "Edward T. Hall", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Albert", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so lucky that I have a great relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Chestnut", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an entry point to any relationship.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that's a normal thing to do, but it's so much harder when it's done publicly.", "AUTHOR": "Courteney Cox", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.", "AUTHOR": "Luigi Pirandello", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is going to kill me for talking about sleeping with people. But I don't want to put myself in the position where I'm in a monogamous relationship right now. I'm not dating just one person. 'Sex and the City' changed everything for me because those girls would sleep with so many people.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?", "AUTHOR": "Sue Johanson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then, of course, Catherine Zeta-Jones had her relationship with Michael Douglas and it suddenly didn't happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Haig", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Barney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Kiedis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Beyonce Knowles", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 'Tattoo''s a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I'm a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand. This is a lifelong relationship, and after 12 years she hasn't gotten rid of me yet.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always open to a relationship, but I'm not putting those feelers out there now.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a mutual relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Lewinsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Hammond", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Yergin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes bravery to end a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom drives me crazy sometimes, but I have a good relationship with her.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hemsworth", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pattinson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pattinson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as women are in the work force making their own money and decisions, men are going to have to realize that this way of life is here to stay - because it takes two incomes to make it and more now. The sooner you address your style of saving and spending with your mate the better off your relationship will be.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Bellucci", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Sheppard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Kwanten", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Guisewite", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to 'Glee,' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to have a great relationship with my child and have a great family dynamic.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Grier", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Collette", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in a happy relationship, me and my ex are on really good terms, my kid and I are in a good spot.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Zeta-Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a better person in a relationship, and I'm a happier person. I need to come home at the end of the day and have it not be about me and my freaking hair and makeup and character motivations anymore. And I think my work is more inspired when home is safe and sound and solid, because what I do for a living is so bananas and so insecure.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship it just obviously wasn't right for me.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and mystifies. So much of the world's favorite music comes out of that relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Klosterman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Penrose", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.", "AUTHOR": "Arundhati Roy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Yearwood", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Martin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Thompson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Goldsworthy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Goddard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Freeman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer O'Neill", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Lafleur", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.", "AUTHOR": "David Mitchell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm certainly not the first person to be in a relationship with a younger man, but somehow I was plucked out as a bit of a poster girl.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Moore", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulder's relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Baker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Mendes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Forget", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?", "AUTHOR": "John O. Brennan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.", "AUTHOR": "Keira Knightley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Spacey", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Keri Russell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis Bextor", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.", "AUTHOR": "Janeane Garofalo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Tautou", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rose", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Sixx", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Horowitz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Damon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ondaatje", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.", "AUTHOR": "Blair Underwood", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries we know that. And this doesn't change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Burns", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Kodjoe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.", "AUTHOR": "Morris West", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive relationship with the world and to engage in it. So hopefully in non-sentimental ways, I'm trying to make something that helps make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "George Carey", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Versace", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bernhard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship is sent by God and accident.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Miller", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Duke", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Stern", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Procter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Middleton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Heche", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.", "AUTHOR": "Tre Cool", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.", "AUTHOR": "James McGreevey", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Willis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Malone", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Gondry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an amazing relationship with food.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Benz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has changed in our relationship with East West. We have no relationship with East West. We've been withholding our labour for almost seven years now.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Eldritch", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Challenge is good for any relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Darren Criss", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Don Johnson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cellucci", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Moffat", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Moffat", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Eckhart", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Lunden", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Parsons", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.", "AUTHOR": "James Bovard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Sewell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.", "AUTHOR": "LeAnn Rimes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Lloyd Webber", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.", "AUTHOR": "David Chalmers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Eccleston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Reno", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are strong enough as a couple, reality shows can be a good thing for the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Franklin Rutherford", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Sadie Frost", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very close relationship with my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Spinrad", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Paretsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clayton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Wilson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.", "AUTHOR": "John Green", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Rice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Coen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ornette Coleman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.", "AUTHOR": "Ornette Coleman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.", "AUTHOR": "Gunter Grass", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Kazan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Perkins Gilman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Salazar", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Cavallari", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Thompson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Thompson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Pierre Raffarin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Pierre Raffarin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Gerhard Schroder", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Simmel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Daldry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Daldry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rauschenberg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Ellul", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Trent Reznor", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.", "AUTHOR": "Piper Perabo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Kilborn", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.", "AUTHOR": "James Spader", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.", "AUTHOR": "Kenzaburo Oe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Smokey Robinson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.", "AUTHOR": "David Cassidy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goldblum", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.", "AUTHOR": "Armand Assante", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Riseborough", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Danes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Glover", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Glover", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Boyd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "John Schlesinger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.", "AUTHOR": "C. L. R. James", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Lythgoe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Silver", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Braeden", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Bob McDonnell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans.", "AUTHOR": "Wynonna Judd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.", "AUTHOR": "Wynonna Judd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Alba", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Goodman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Weymouth", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.", "AUTHOR": "Augusten Burroughs", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Simon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, the problem in a relationship is when the couple stagnate.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Baker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Tannen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They need to see a strong relationship. You don't have to settle.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Strahan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Hill", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Ashmore", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Rhys Meyers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn' because I love the relationship Rosalie has with Jacob and the rest of her family and Bella. She also provides comic relief.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Reed", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.", "AUTHOR": "Genevieve Gorder", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Lyne", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Adrian Lyne", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.", "AUTHOR": "Joichi Ito", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Orbach", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Moore", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio in fact it pays the bills.", "AUTHOR": "Robert McChesney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Jackson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.", "AUTHOR": "Will Oldham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When Luke and Laura dated in 'General Hospital' when I was a kid, I was very excited. And that was a rather pathetic relationship if you break it down because let's face it: he raped her... and then they got married. There's all kinds of things that TV does to relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Ladd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.", "AUTHOR": "Blair Underwood", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Cameron", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Finley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.", "AUTHOR": "Lexa Doig", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Fischer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?", "AUTHOR": "Boris Becker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.", "AUTHOR": "Tea Leoni", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Watson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Watson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Curry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Crais", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Jewison", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I presented what I felt the woman seemed to be about, but I couldn't give any reason as to why she remained in the relationship other than that their relationship was very special.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Agutter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.", "AUTHOR": "John Oates", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.", "AUTHOR": "Utada Hikaru", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Lyn O'Keefe", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Costa", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Candice Swanepoel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanne Cash", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Ostrofsky", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dole", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Lichtenstein", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.", "AUTHOR": "John Mahoney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This relationship is going to be built on trust.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Maples", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What was a really private and nice relationship was judged and made to be something ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Maples", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Bechdel", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.", "AUTHOR": "Armie Hammer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.", "AUTHOR": "Priscilla Presley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Walton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very bad relationship with mice.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Affleck", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Lee DeWyze", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a very close relationship with my mom, and I'm able to talk to her about anything.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Szohr", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel P. Huntington", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Jintao", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Jintao", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Birtwistle", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Watzlawick", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo Antonioni", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Selleck", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.'", "AUTHOR": "John Shelton Reed", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.", "AUTHOR": "Izabella Scorupco", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher McCandless", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Mathews", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Ferguson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Ann Inaba", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.", "AUTHOR": "David Carradine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Schwartz", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support in my football and in everything. They've been very close to me and we have a great relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Messi", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.", "AUTHOR": "William Scranton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Quidde", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Voight", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Kelley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.", "AUTHOR": "Penn Jillette", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.", "AUTHOR": "Barry McGuigan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.", "AUTHOR": "China Mieville", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Long", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.", "AUTHOR": "Richard G. Scott", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress.", "AUTHOR": "Richard V. Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Donner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Ryan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Yelchin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Yelchin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Heche", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Goldberg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Taylor", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.", "AUTHOR": "David Steinberg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Graham", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.", "AUTHOR": "William Devane", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tilson Thomas", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.", "AUTHOR": "Karlheinz Stockhausen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Carpenter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Maestro", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia McKinney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Carreras", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.", "AUTHOR": "Jenifer Lewis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.", "AUTHOR": "John Moody", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Tweedy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Diament", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.", "AUTHOR": "Jones Very", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Young", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Kyan Douglas", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Steyn", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Ronson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Vai", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.", "AUTHOR": "Stuart Rose", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Geithner is an excellent minister. We have a good personal relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Schauble", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Peter L. Berger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.", "AUTHOR": "Peter L. Berger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Goytisolo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.", "AUTHOR": "Erika Slezak", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.", "AUTHOR": "David Hyde Pierce", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Durkin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Lister-Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Lister-Jones", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.", "AUTHOR": "Uta Hagen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.", "AUTHOR": "Poppy Z. Brite", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they have today over their jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Goddard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Goddard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Leigh", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Jarman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Brimelow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Beals", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'", "AUTHOR": "David Thewlis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Stapp", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Taymor", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In any relationship that comes to an end, there's never just a baseline reason why. You say, 'Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.' Someone says, 'Why?' You say, 'Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you've got to talk to her.'", "AUTHOR": "Michael Rapaport", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Connelly", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Rice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Rice", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Lifeson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.", "AUTHOR": "Norman McLaren", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.", "AUTHOR": "Tila Tequila", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Depardieu", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.", "AUTHOR": "June Singer", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.", "AUTHOR": "David Nail", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Chely Wright", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Tylo", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Eknath Easwaran", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Wilton", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.", "AUTHOR": "Paz de la Huerta", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Tab Hunter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.", "AUTHOR": "Mike McCready", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Holmes", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.", "AUTHOR": "Rosario Dawson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Gaynor", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.", "AUTHOR": "Arsenio Hall", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Joel Osment", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.", "AUTHOR": "Trish Stratus", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Hatfill", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.", "AUTHOR": "Juliet Stevenson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.", "AUTHOR": "Douglass North", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.", "AUTHOR": "Tom C. Clark", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Valentine", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Glover", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.", "AUTHOR": "Deana Carter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.", "AUTHOR": "Deana Carter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.", "AUTHOR": "Erik Qualman", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Chamberlin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.", "AUTHOR": "Story Musgrave", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Spellings", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Melissa and I have the best working relationship, and we feel that Jack and Jennifer have so much more to do.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Ashford", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Shalom Harlow", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Lauren Adams", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Lauren Adams", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Thompson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hodges", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Gordon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Plato", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth H. Cooper", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Pozen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.", "AUTHOR": "T-Bone Burnett", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Rabin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.", "AUTHOR": "John Howard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had a relationship with clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip Lim", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Cusack", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Andrew Taylor", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Giggs", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.", "AUTHOR": "Max Greenfield", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.", "AUTHOR": "Max Greenfield", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Kane", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Morsi", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.", "AUTHOR": "William Kirby", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'm in a relationship, I'm 1,000% in it. I love doing things for them and surprising them. And that's just something I thoroughly enjoy and it gives me a lot of pleasure. I just haven't found that right girl yet.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Henderson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Snowdon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ealy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Andrews", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Alexa Vega", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Hall", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Gardner", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Sisto", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'", "AUTHOR": "Miles Teller", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Cooney", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ellsberg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilian Schell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Love Hewitt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.", "AUTHOR": "Jan de Bont", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Cornell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Uris", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kronenberger", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Trachtenberg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.", "AUTHOR": "Dolph Lundgren", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.", "AUTHOR": "Colleen Haskell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Murphy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jurasik", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Berg", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Thorne Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Cousy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city.", "AUTHOR": "John Dykstra", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bettany", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.", "AUTHOR": "Saku Koivu", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Bennett Miller", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Glodell", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Henderson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Donald", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Corker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.", "AUTHOR": "Stellan Skarsgard", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Kingsbury", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Bill Clinton in 1977 while I was working as a news reporter for KARK-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Shortly after we met, we began a sexual relationship that lasted for twelve years.", "AUTHOR": "Gennifer Flowers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.", "AUTHOR": "Gennifer Flowers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a very special relationship and I think in very many ways to them it's a very satisfying relationship. I think that it's a mutual respect with a goal of power to achieve, maintain power. And I think that they have been good partners in that.", "AUTHOR": "Gennifer Flowers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.", "AUTHOR": "Gennifer Flowers", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ray Cyrus", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.", "AUTHOR": "Ira Levin", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.", "AUTHOR": "Dyan Cannon", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Smith", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Porter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.", "AUTHOR": "Ali A. Saleh", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.", "AUTHOR": "Tibor Benedek", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "DeForest Soaries", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Pettigrew", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Phillips", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert Walker", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Agutter", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship to gravity is permanently altered.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Jesse Bernstein", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Yulia Tymoshenko", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.", "AUTHOR": "John R. Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.", "AUTHOR": "Lynette Fromme", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabetta Canalis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a direct line relationship between what happened in Afghanistan in the work up to 11 September 2001 and what we're doing in Afghanistan today.", "AUTHOR": "John R. Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.", "AUTHOR": "Aron Ralston", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.", "AUTHOR": "John R. Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy does. But at the end of the day, he's trying to prove himself to a father he'll never really please.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lampley", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.", "AUTHOR": "John R. Allen", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Jarre", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Olson", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Greenwood", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Tripplehorn", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Conroy", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Tripplehorn", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I look for.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hatch", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I would stay on, but 'General Hospital' honestly doesn't seem to want that relationship with this character at the moment. They want little short doses during sweeps periods.", "AUTHOR": "Genie Francis", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Cummings", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Sessions", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Gilligan", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Guarnaschelli", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Mudd", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "My relationship with the journalists who covered the campaign was complicated. I often hid from the critical eye of their cameras and their omnipresent digital recorders, wary of the critique implicit in every captured moment. But I also grew to respect and understand their passion for their work, their love for the journey we were sharing.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Kerry", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hunt", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Riding", "GENRE": "relationship" }, { "QUOTE": "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples my philosophy is kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We are punished by our sins, not for them.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Human beings must be known to be loved but Divine beings must be loved to be known.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Wonder is the basis of worship.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach us to give and not to count the cost.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Ignatius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kronenberger", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Chase", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.", "AUTHOR": "Moses", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My life was changed in one breath from God.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Summer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.", "AUTHOR": "James Larkin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.", "AUTHOR": "Gary North", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Son of God became man so that we might become God.", "AUTHOR": "Athanasius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Ambrose", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.", "AUTHOR": "William Pennington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Schaff", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.", "AUTHOR": "John Morley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tournier", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Neville", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Diament", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Garden", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is just mind control.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the opium of the masses.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is my religion - I could die for it.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Raitt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is all bunk.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Toleration is the best religion.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm religiously opposed to religion.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Where knowledge ends, religion begins.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Stern", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.", "AUTHOR": "Guy de Maupassant", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Mojo Nixon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it that's my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.", "AUTHOR": "Minna Antrim", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Lucretius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tillich", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "True character arises from a deeper well than religion.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Murphy", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Abdurrahman Wahid", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.", "AUTHOR": "Avicenna", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.", "AUTHOR": "Lucretius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, is football a game or a religion?", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Michener", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Sojourner Truth", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Real religion is no religion at all.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Turing", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "G. I. Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "They have hijacked my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I hold that religion and faith are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buckley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.", "AUTHOR": "Art Linkletter", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is doing a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "George Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion leaves no room for human complexity.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.", "AUTHOR": "John Cornyn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Davies", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.", "AUTHOR": "Ulrich Beck", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrix Potter", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Shirin Ebadi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in organized religion - I dealt with them hand in hand, and a whole bunch of Catholic priests tried to molest me. Telling me I was gay and I should go home with them and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jermaine Jackson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Clary", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no religion but sex and music.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Besant", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Wakeman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Milk", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.", "AUTHOR": "Van Morrison", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.", "AUTHOR": "William J. H. Boetcker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I love religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.", "AUTHOR": "Moustapha Akkad", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Lee Ray", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Tournier", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Whichcote", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Aurobindo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Reed", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One person's religion is another person's cult.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Jameson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.", "AUTHOR": "Hosea Ballou", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.", "AUTHOR": "Israel Zangwill", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Beaumarchais", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious tolerance is something we should all practice however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Koenig", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is not a religion to me.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You're always going to have extremists in every religion.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Milk", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Stone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "A cult is a religion with no political power.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Juliana Hatfield", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.", "AUTHOR": "James Caan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.", "AUTHOR": "Zbigniew Brzezinski", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Buechner", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Sean O'Casey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Cusack", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Harmon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Cruise O'Brien", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Ransom", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.", "AUTHOR": "Gouverneur Morris", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My political ideas and things like that, even my religion, I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing, and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that, like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world, I'm just an entertainer.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Ford", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Ochs", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I broke with my religion in college.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Casablancas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas William Jerrold", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Frank", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Kingsley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brokaw", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Blavatsky", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is induced insanity.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Kung", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Savage Landor", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Moore", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.", "AUTHOR": "David Eagleman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Richard John Neuhaus", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Shirin Ebadi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Seeger", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth St. Denis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Buckley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Urs von Balthasar", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bond", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Barth", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Klaus", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.", "AUTHOR": "Ernestine Rose", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah More", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph W. Sockman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Naguib", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Chinmoy", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Matthews", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Boortz", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Comenius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.", "AUTHOR": "Randall Terry", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.", "AUTHOR": "Polly Toynbee", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Brooks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Liszt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.", "AUTHOR": "Prince", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no truce between science and religion.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Melbourne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a difference between God and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Sinead O'Connor", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rahall", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Amis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Wellesley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Wellesley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ricardo Montalban", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Morgan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'", "AUTHOR": "Matt Stone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the church and the religion right now have a lot more to be worried about than SLAYER.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry King", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Raphael Cohen", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.", "AUTHOR": "Kathie Lee Gifford", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.", "AUTHOR": "Kathie Lee Gifford", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Loud", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.", "AUTHOR": "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.", "AUTHOR": "Recep Tayyip Erdogan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Keegan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Heidecker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.", "AUTHOR": "Jurgen Habermas", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.", "AUTHOR": "William Ames", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Ram Dass", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gere", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Wilson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is a mixed blessing.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Ramone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Ferraro", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Grier", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Abel Ferrara", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Sampras", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.", "AUTHOR": "Robert South", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Haley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Pierre Raffarin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.", "AUTHOR": "Irvine Welsh", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Holbrook", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.", "AUTHOR": "William Barclay", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is my country, science is my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Christiaan Huygens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Davies", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Keller", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.", "AUTHOR": "Peter King", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.", "AUTHOR": "Yahoo Serious", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Jon Williams", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Eastman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Riseborough", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Shenouda III", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I do engineering, not religion.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Bernstein", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Bell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.", "AUTHOR": "Edward F. Halifax", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Pride", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond de Goncourt", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.", "AUTHOR": "T-Pain", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion lies in my composition.", "AUTHOR": "John Philip Sousa", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Donald", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ulrich Beck", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Lethem", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.", "AUTHOR": "Henrique Capriles Radonski", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Junius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars have always started over religion.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Danzig", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Hannity", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ja Rule", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Carr", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Rothfuss", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Hanks", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.", "AUTHOR": "Azar Nafisi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.", "AUTHOR": "James Randi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.", "AUTHOR": "Midge Ure", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Potter", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Cale", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Baker", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hopkins", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Moore", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.", "AUTHOR": "Anne McCaffrey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Jackson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam is a peaceful religion.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Gad", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.", "AUTHOR": "Will Oldham", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Don Henley", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Berryman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.", "AUTHOR": "Tom T. Hall", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Callow", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Bishop", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Kung", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Gaines", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Cade Bambara", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Flora Lewis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Tate", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Cox", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.", "AUTHOR": "David Hilbert", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Monk", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Sewell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It was part of your religion to hate the British.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Harding Davis", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a new religion.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Hutton", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Cary", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Housman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Housman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.", "AUTHOR": "Tom C. Clark", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics in America is the binding secular religion.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore White", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Follet", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.", "AUTHOR": "Thurston Moore", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Hersh", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.", "AUTHOR": "Asghar Farhadi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.", "AUTHOR": "John Desmond Bernal", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Masterson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you need religion.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Jones", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.", "AUTHOR": "William Robertson Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.", "AUTHOR": "Lytton Strachey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.", "AUTHOR": "James Larkin", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Lamar S. Smith", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Berrigan", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred de Vigny", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.", "AUTHOR": "Norma McCorvey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Sheldrake", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.", "AUTHOR": "Anjelica Huston", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Sheldrake", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keneally", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.", "AUTHOR": "David O. Selznick", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Robinson", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Tancredo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Mensch", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Bell", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Lee", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Ribisi", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Stevens", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Chavez", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Augusta Ward", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Parrish", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.", "AUTHOR": "James Kent", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The search for religion is the starting point of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Xu Zhimo", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Carpenter", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.", "AUTHOR": "Bernice Johnson Reagon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bert", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.", "AUTHOR": "Bernice Johnson Reagon", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.", "AUTHOR": "Kit Williams", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.", "AUTHOR": "Lactantius", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Boone", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Harvey", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.", "AUTHOR": "Sela Ward", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Perrotta", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rainy", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm fascinated by the power of religion in our culture. Like a lot of secular, liberal people, I ignored it for a long time. Lately, of course, just from a political perspective, it's impossible to ignore.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Perrotta", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.", "AUTHOR": "John Woolman", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick II", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Schanberg", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Neil", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.", "AUTHOR": "Lemuel K. Washburn", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Russel Wallace", "GENRE": "religion" }, { "QUOTE": "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Robinson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect is what we owe love, what we give.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "America wants its respect.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "William J. H. Boetcker", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are not free, no one will respect us.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Coltrane", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.", "AUTHOR": "Bono", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.", "AUTHOR": "Lakhdar Brahimi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Parsons", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I always respect a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.", "AUTHOR": "Eli Whitney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Capriati", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.", "AUTHOR": "Chaka Khan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Summer Altice", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Branden", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We reserve our deepest respect and admiration for those who volunteer for service and give their lives to help keep our nation secure.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Aldo Leopold", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate victims who respect their executioners.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect the burden.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel L. Jackson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph W. Sockman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Koch", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Hagen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Cisneros", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Vergara", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Gottlieb", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Kurshan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.", "AUTHOR": "Gamaliel Bailey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People respect nonfiction but they read novels.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Najimy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Miller", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Bonds", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I deserve respect for the things I did not do.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.", "AUTHOR": "Everett Dirksen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Schwartzman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Stevens", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we're really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don't have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bunton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't buy back your respect you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Campbell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Yousef Munayyer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Branden", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What I respect as far as in myself and in others is the spirit of just doing it. For better or worse, it may work and it may not, but I'm going to go for it. Ultimately I probably prefer to be respected for that than whether it works out or not, either winning or losing.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that they've done, I've been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.", "AUTHOR": "Will Cuppy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect a woman too much to marry her.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Milk", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.", "AUTHOR": "Jena Malone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Handy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Blackwell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Henson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.", "AUTHOR": "Steffi Graf", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dorsett", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Wakeman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Do dirt, get dirt. So I treat people with the same respect that I want.", "AUTHOR": "DMX", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Awe and respect are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McQueen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.", "AUTHOR": "William Cobbett", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy McKeon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Nash", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People are giving me more respect.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon B. Hinckley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Voters don't have to love him, Romney advisers say, but they will respect him.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.", "AUTHOR": "William Dean Howells", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Yauch", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Addams", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Chaplin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.", "AUTHOR": "Kina Grannis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.", "AUTHOR": "James Brown", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Give your teachers the respect they deserve, because they are the ones who can help you get where you need to go.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Howard", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.", "AUTHOR": "Thorstein Veblen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Stack", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.", "AUTHOR": "William Lyon Phelps", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You totally value and respect your body as you get older.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.", "AUTHOR": "George Bancroft", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Cochrane", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Simmel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Schumann", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.", "AUTHOR": "John Edwards", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Garton Ash", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Firth", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Carne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect the place you live, be aware of the impact that you have on things.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "U Thant", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Nikita Khrushchev", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Heather O'Reilly", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Scott-Heron", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.", "AUTHOR": "Mos Def", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Tiberius", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Starr", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.", "AUTHOR": "John Gray", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to respect choices that women make.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have respect for beer.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Crowe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Bedford Forrest", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship we have to respect its traditions and its rules.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.", "AUTHOR": "Radha Mitchell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Nielsen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other we have fun together - it's great.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed ElBaradei", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Brennan, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.", "AUTHOR": "Juvenal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Kaufmann", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Caan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.", "AUTHOR": "Alcee Hastings", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.", "AUTHOR": "Milo Ventimiglia", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Dale Owen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect and fear are two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a critic of the antiglobalization movement, and they've been a critic of me, but the one thing I respect about the movement is their authentic energy. These are not people who don't care about the world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of respect for marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Nash Baldwin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.", "AUTHOR": "George Bancroft", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.", "AUTHOR": "John Bacon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Gross", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.", "AUTHOR": "Zinedine Zidane", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Rooney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.", "AUTHOR": "David Hasselhoff", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.", "AUTHOR": "Ravi Shankar", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Burnett", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Booker", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Horst Koehler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.", "AUTHOR": "Eldridge Cleaver", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Mara", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Carter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Harrison", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.", "AUTHOR": "Bainbridge Colby", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.", "AUTHOR": "Tahar Ben Jelloun", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Curry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Austin Green", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.", "AUTHOR": "Jewel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Strong", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Chesney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.", "AUTHOR": "Stella McCartney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.", "AUTHOR": "Bai Ling", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Gibb", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.", "AUTHOR": "Giuliana Rancic", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Holder", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Banks", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Krohn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Jacobs", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!", "AUTHOR": "Sally Field", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.", "AUTHOR": "Waylon Jennings", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.", "AUTHOR": "Blanche Lincoln", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.", "AUTHOR": "Wade Boggs", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm to happy being myself.", "AUTHOR": "James D'arcy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Evans", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Driver", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the office of the president.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Brewer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clooney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Braeden", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Baker", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hunt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.", "AUTHOR": "ASAP Rocky", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.", "AUTHOR": "Sugar Ray Leonard", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.", "AUTHOR": "George Best", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.", "AUTHOR": "Eudora Welty", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Ferneyhough", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Ferneyhough", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.", "AUTHOR": "Max Nordau", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Monti", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm definitely bicoastal, but I have to say, it's easier to live in New York than in L.A. I feel like people respect other people's space a bit more here.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.", "AUTHOR": "Criss Angel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.", "AUTHOR": "Al-Waleed bin Talal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Breyer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.", "AUTHOR": "Gael Garcia Bernal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Lowe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Horne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Townes Earle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Duhamel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Hattie McDaniel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain for them. Which is not always pleasant in a relationship. Sometimes it's fun though.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Fowler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Cornish", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Epps", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Haddon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I always got great respect as a bass player.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Wyman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear God and respect God and love God.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Ratner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Santorum", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.", "AUTHOR": "Bill O'Reilly", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Arsene Wenger", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.", "AUTHOR": "Lafcadio Hearn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Chavez", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Malone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Malone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.", "AUTHOR": "Studs Terkel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Langella", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.", "AUTHOR": "Branch Rickey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.", "AUTHOR": "David Axelrod", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.", "AUTHOR": "Sanaa Lathan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Fowler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Rogers", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Giancarlo Esposito", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Ricardo Montalban", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fraser", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Ware", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Stone", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.", "AUTHOR": "Byron Dorgan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Bateman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My mission, I guess, has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom, dignity, and respect.", "AUTHOR": "John Fisher", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Val Kilmer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Carano", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '", "AUTHOR": "Gina Carano", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Hazanavicius", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My government will respect the will of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Mwai Kibaki", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Allen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've discovered that I've never had much respect for money, and that has meant that money has ended up ruling me a little bit more than it should have. So I'm trying to learn - at this late stage in life! - to actually control that.", "AUTHOR": "Rufus Sewell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Ladd", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.", "AUTHOR": "John Hench", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Bongo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem.", "AUTHOR": "John Barton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Kay", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.", "AUTHOR": "Rafael Palmeiro", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.", "AUTHOR": "Feist", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clayton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.", "AUTHOR": "Lakhdar Brahimi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Butler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Abrams", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Jontel Pimentel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. Harvey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bogut", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Raitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Raitt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Salazar", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Salazar", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Sampras", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "South Carolinians are strong, independently-minded people. At the end of the day, they make their own decisions. And I respect them for that. And I welcome that. And I told him that from the very beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Haley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Haley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Vega", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Powter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.", "AUTHOR": "David Hasselhoff", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Blades", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Windling", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a wonderful respect for old people.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Kilborn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.", "AUTHOR": "David Talbot", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goldblum", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Park", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Bourne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to be the best husband I can be, and if people respect that, that's cool. But there's no 'perfect husband.' We just all try to do the best we can, you know what I mean?", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lachey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Arguello", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Arguello", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Trachtenberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wood", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Keller", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Silver", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.", "AUTHOR": "Taryn Manning", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "John Philip Sousa", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Stowe", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Paul", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Paul", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?", "AUTHOR": "Henrique Capriles Radonski", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.", "AUTHOR": "Bob McDonnell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.", "AUTHOR": "Bob McDonnell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.", "AUTHOR": "Benazir Bhutto", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Weymouth", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Weymouth", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.", "AUTHOR": "Wil Wheaton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it.", "AUTHOR": "David O. Russell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game - and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriela Sabatini", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.", "AUTHOR": "Sparky Anderson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.", "AUTHOR": "John Nelson Darby", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.", "AUTHOR": "John Nelson Darby", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.", "AUTHOR": "Corin Nemec", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Strahan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Couric", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lindh", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Porter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Styles", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Vargas Llosa", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Hunnam", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Murphy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.", "AUTHOR": "Hayden Christensen", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Seal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Nat King Cole", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Jami Gertz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Mason", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect music, I do. I love it.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Gibb", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.", "AUTHOR": "Nikolai Gogol", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.", "AUTHOR": "Artur Davis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.", "AUTHOR": "Will Oldham", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Redmayne", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Ulvaeus", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing but respect for HBO.", "AUTHOR": "James Gandolfini", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Levitan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hagler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Cameron", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Arabs respect only the language of force.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Sharett", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Cruz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect Everest very much.", "AUTHOR": "Anatoli Boukreev", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Newsom", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.", "AUTHOR": "Kyra Sedgwick", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Spencer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Manuel Barroso", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Wicks", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Agutter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Singer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.", "AUTHOR": "Alice James", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.", "AUTHOR": "Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfrid Laurier", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kane", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.", "AUTHOR": "Cristina Saralegui", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Fenelon", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Morgan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Respect is not ever assigned it's earned.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Tripp", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.", "AUTHOR": "John Bruton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Westwick", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.", "AUTHOR": "George Carey", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Walton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Parker", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.", "AUTHOR": "Angelo Scola", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Chapman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Reichert", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.", "AUTHOR": "Josiah Royce", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Hensley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.", "AUTHOR": "James Payn", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.", "AUTHOR": "Elton Gallegly", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.", "AUTHOR": "Elton Gallegly", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.", "AUTHOR": "John Milius", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Lemieux", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Michael Hall", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Allison", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.", "AUTHOR": "John Fogerty", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.", "AUTHOR": "Ryne Sandberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Ryne Sandberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking at working with people I get on with, that respect me, that don't just see me as a piece of ass. Which I have experienced as well. I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.", "AUTHOR": "Gemma Arterton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Denton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Berg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Abbas", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Kelly", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Mexico takes a hard line on immigration, demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully, and show her respect during their stay.", "AUTHOR": "John Linder", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Martinez", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Tiahrt", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.", "AUTHOR": "Julio Iglesias", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Clarke Duncan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Bijou Phillips", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.", "AUTHOR": "Wietse Venema", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Petty", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.", "AUTHOR": "Stone Gossard", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Kelly", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.", "AUTHOR": "Darren Flutie", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Way Teale", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baucus", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "John Ashcroft", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Oz", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Long", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Aiello", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.", "AUTHOR": "Hideki Tojo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.", "AUTHOR": "Hideki Tojo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.", "AUTHOR": "Ford Frick", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.", "AUTHOR": "Busta Rhymes", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?", "AUTHOR": "Busta Rhymes", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge I can't think about filling them.", "AUTHOR": "Randy West", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team.", "AUTHOR": "Randy West", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.", "AUTHOR": "Randy West", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.", "AUTHOR": "James F. Byrnes", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.", "AUTHOR": "Little Milton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Although a lot of pain for a little screen time Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Diamond Phillips", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Margulis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Scheuer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Newman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Masur", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Masur", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Kudrow", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Ross", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was an inspiration to me I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.", "AUTHOR": "Hayley Mills", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ealy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.", "AUTHOR": "David Steinberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Engel", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ealy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.", "AUTHOR": "Ausonius", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shum, Jr.", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Smedley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in love with the man I want to spend the rest of my life with, who pushes me and excites me.", "AUTHOR": "Ali Larter", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Scott", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Larry Kasdan has made some of my favorite movies of all time so just to be working with him was a pleasure. Now that I have, I not only respect his work but I just love and respect him as a person.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Olyphant", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chertoff", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Lahti", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Brien", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Beckenbauer", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Liu", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Rotton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.", "AUTHOR": "John Woolman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Murphy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live what you believe, you will always have the respect of others.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Murphy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.", "AUTHOR": "Mercy Otis Warren", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Henry Abbott", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Deming", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dundes", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Young", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Molina", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.", "AUTHOR": "Donnie Wahlberg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.", "AUTHOR": "Betsey Johnson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Goytisolo", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Green", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Bernice Johnson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Kohl", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Jil Sander", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Gardiner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Ellen Mark", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Gardiner", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Ellen Mark", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lieberman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so, like, corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter Parrish", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Mahony", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.", "AUTHOR": "James Kent", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Messina", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "This post of President is a Constitutional post. It is the duty of everyone, all citizens to see that they respect the post... the institution of President.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.", "AUTHOR": "Tavis Smiley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Miliband", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible.", "AUTHOR": "Emir Kusturica", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Li Peng", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Another important aspect of our home was respect for ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Laughlin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Laughlin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.", "AUTHOR": "Robert B. Laughlin", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rice", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.", "AUTHOR": "John Sherman Cooper", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Hendricks", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Trollope", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Rush", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Stefanie Powers", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Taymor", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Cuvier", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jane", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jane", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you take care of people, people respect you.", "AUTHOR": "George Weah", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Patrick Harris", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Muren", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Max Nordau", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Saatchi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Rania of Jordan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me all the time, 'Are you fed up with reality TV?' At the end of the day, it can affect my career in the sense that the more reality shows there are, the less scripted dramas out there, but I can't ever really knock them. I started on 'Popstars,' which was a reality talent show. I have respect for them.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Henderson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Rania of Jordan", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Robinson", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmed Chalabi", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Ennis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marlantes", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Vest", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Wright", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.", "AUTHOR": "Roone Arledge", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.", "AUTHOR": "Roone Arledge", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'", "AUTHOR": "Barry McGuire", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.", "AUTHOR": "LaToya London", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Fishman", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Eriq La Salle", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.", "AUTHOR": "Olympia Dukakis", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Collins", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Sharif", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Garneau", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Mulgrew", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.", "AUTHOR": "Mike McCready", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Mumy", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Polley", "GENRE": "respect" }, { "QUOTE": "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "French is the language that turns dirt into romance.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Fender", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Chen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Delpy", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Anderson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Carter", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.", "AUTHOR": "Yeardley Smith", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being one half of a romantic couple.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Penn", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Gordy Carter", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Swanson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Eckhart", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Caron", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Love Hewitt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Dar Williams", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Hart", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Trachtenberg", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Strayhorn", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Hagen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Death was like love, a romantic escape.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic slob!", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic with a dirty mind.", "AUTHOR": "Leelee Sobieski", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I was blinded by being a romantic person.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.", "AUTHOR": "Morgan Freeman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Roth", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to be really a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.", "AUTHOR": "James Wolcott", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Madden", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Bale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big romantic, so I love guys who are romantic too.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic guy.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is painful.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.", "AUTHOR": "Giada De Laurentiis", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrice Wood", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a bit of a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bana", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Beckinsale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a fan of daytime drama I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.", "AUTHOR": "Joe DiMaggio", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Greene", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!", "AUTHOR": "George Herman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.", "AUTHOR": "James Earl Jones", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.", "AUTHOR": "James Weldon Johnson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Renner", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband, Sal, and I put date nights on the calendar once a week. I know that doesn't sound romantic, but otherwise it won't get done.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.", "AUTHOR": "Elisha Cuthbert", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Modine", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Rogen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Oliver", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Dinner is a great first date. Don't believe that stuff about girls not wanting to eat on a first date - sharing a romantic meal is so sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Wright", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barbera", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Swayze", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Macfadyen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "James Earl Jones", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Dae Kim", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie-Anne Moss", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Driver", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.", "AUTHOR": "Ewan McGregor", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.", "AUTHOR": "David Millar", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wolfe", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Jackson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Brown", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Bell", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.", "AUTHOR": "Irwin Shaw", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Bilson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Rae Jepsen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Sinead O'Connor", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Cooking is always very romantic!", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Morrison", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, I'm a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Pia Zadora", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Dale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.", "AUTHOR": "David McCallum", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wortley Montagu", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.", "AUTHOR": "Don Johnson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Weaving", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Weaving", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to do a romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Eckhart", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.", "AUTHOR": "Bai Ling", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Felicity Jones", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Tartt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Stephenie Meyer", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.", "AUTHOR": "David Fincher", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Coverdale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.", "AUTHOR": "Feist", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.", "AUTHOR": "Freida Pinto", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.", "AUTHOR": "John Green", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a hopeless romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Brown Findlay", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Macfadyen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.", "AUTHOR": "James D'arcy", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Chestnut", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Burns", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Chevy Chase", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Riseborough", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Lineker", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Lineker", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once, then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further. So, I just keep my private life to myself.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Griffith", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Lucas", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in the studio is a really romantic time.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Krauss", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Meyers", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Vinton", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Finney", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.", "AUTHOR": "John Stamos", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dance", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.", "AUTHOR": "Eric McCormack", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Jewison", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Jewison", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Jewison", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really a romantic at heart.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Atkins", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Black", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane, I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Black", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Dutt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.", "AUTHOR": "John McGahern", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Isaacs", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sick of playing romantic leads.", "AUTHOR": "John Corbett", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.", "AUTHOR": "Wes Anderson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Fiona", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frank", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Izabella Scorupco", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Zaslow", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.", "AUTHOR": "George Murray", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Thompson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lando", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Ryan", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Reno", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.", "AUTHOR": "Pia Zadora", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Pettyfer", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Graham", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Coleman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Olyphant", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Olyphant", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Bennett", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Clarkson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Molina", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very romantic person.", "AUTHOR": "Esai Morales", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Watts", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Armatrading", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Marriner", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Patrick King", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Beals", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jane", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.", "AUTHOR": "John Dos Passos", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.", "AUTHOR": "Rosario Dawson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together. You're texting. You're wondering what's going on. There's no definitions, there's no labels.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Meriwether", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Hudson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Holden", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a horrible romantic!", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Campbell Bower", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kellerman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Emeli Sande", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Fiorentino", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Elliott", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lillard", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't live with people, that's why my relationships last. I'm not romantic. Even when I was a teenager if somebody asked if they could hold my hand I'd say, - no, it's not heavy, I can hold it myself, thank you'.", "AUTHOR": "Paul O'Grady", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Dubus III", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Lumley", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Gardner", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Chase Smith", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Bratt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Love Hewitt", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Kennedy", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.", "AUTHOR": "John McLaughlin", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.", "AUTHOR": "James L. Brooks", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Delpy", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Meyers", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Coolidge", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.", "AUTHOR": "Italo Calvino", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Wilson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.", "AUTHOR": "Susannah McCorkle", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.", "AUTHOR": "Stana Katic", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Phillips", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.", "AUTHOR": "Philippa Gregory", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Broccoli", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Pullman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Pullman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bello", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Leiber", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.", "AUTHOR": "Liu Wen", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Tomlinson", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Singer", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hoskins", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.", "AUTHOR": "Diego Boneta", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.", "AUTHOR": "Buchi Emecheta", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In the West, audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.", "AUTHOR": "Chow Yun-Fat", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romantic comedies.", "AUTHOR": "Lil' Romeo", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Mosley", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Savage", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Cole", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.", "AUTHOR": "John Boorman", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.", "AUTHOR": "William Dunbar", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Street-Porter", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.", "AUTHOR": "Dilma Rousseff", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.", "AUTHOR": "John Sandford", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.", "AUTHOR": "Francine Pascal", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Cannavale", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Fox", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Stoll", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Roberts Rinehart", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Hopper", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.", "AUTHOR": "David Lyons", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Archer", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Symons", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Boyd", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider what a romantic expedition you are on take notes.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Boyd", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "So I'm still in my romantic stage with London, I love it as a place.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Cooke", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Waters", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and I'd love to do some period pieces with classical text. I'd love somebody to cast me as Macbeth, but for a film. I just want to be all over the place.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Alejandro", "GENRE": "romantic" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Oberst", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Nana Mouskouri", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.", "AUTHOR": "Saadi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Bacon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Fenelon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.", "AUTHOR": "Morrie Schwartz", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadness flies away on the wings of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Time takes away the grief of men.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Dionne Warwick", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Day-Lewis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Bronte", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Garbo", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Schubert", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond de Goncourt", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Porchia", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had sadness for breakfast.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Milonakis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.", "AUTHOR": "Conor Oberst", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Toomey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.", "AUTHOR": "Eudora Welty", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.", "AUTHOR": "Taraji P. Henson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene O'Neill", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.", "AUTHOR": "Alyssa Milano", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadness is also a kind of defence.", "AUTHOR": "Ivo Andric", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Blass", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Hornby", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Peyroux", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Satir", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Chevalier", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsten Dunst", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker if sad, it must not scream or curse.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have many sad days.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas makes everything twice as sad.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.", "AUTHOR": "Viggo Mortensen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.", "AUTHOR": "Evel Knievel", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Rogers", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Debussy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.", "AUTHOR": "Christina G. Rossetti", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Seyfried", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.", "AUTHOR": "George Jones", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.", "AUTHOR": "Ravi Shankar", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of country music is sad.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years I'm like a giddy little kid.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Moore", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Bonham Carter", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Clarkson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad when people break up.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Wisdom", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Johanson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Los Angeles can be a really sad city.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Allen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Furlong", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Osmond", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Adams", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Steele", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Blumenauer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Hagar", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.", "AUTHOR": "Miuccia Prada", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Allen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Sky", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Parker", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sad at all about turning 40.", "AUTHOR": "Halle Berry", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Victoria", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.", "AUTHOR": "Major R. Owens", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Binoche", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rhodes", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Rush", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Ailey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Spacey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.", "AUTHOR": "Heston Blumenthal", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Levine", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Steadman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Payne", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Slick", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.", "AUTHOR": "Sergio Aragones", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?", "AUTHOR": "Andy Kaufman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!", "AUTHOR": "Emily Mortimer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Lacy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.", "AUTHOR": "Bai Ling", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Tartt", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Vorderman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Field", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lehrer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In film, you can have sad endings.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Nana Mouskouri", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wyatt", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so grounded, it's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Maron", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.", "AUTHOR": "Edie Falco", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Sherilyn Fenn", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Siberry", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Baker", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Carlton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Home will always be Northern Ireland but my schedule means for the next few years I won't be there as much. I can't do the same things that I did a year ago. That is I'm something conscious of, but I'm not sad about it. It's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Atari is a very sad story.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Mackay", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.", "AUTHOR": "Corazon Aquino", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Mills", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "People are so codified - it's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul Gaultier", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Unit Zappa", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Green", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Messi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Duff", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Estefan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like my substitute for the roaring fireplace of yore.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Russell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.", "AUTHOR": "Ricki Lake", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Wellesley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Yothers", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Jackson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Haggard", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.", "AUTHOR": "Stella McCartney", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Lloyd Webber", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Kalashnikov", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Lynne", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.", "AUTHOR": "Li Na", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Holder", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Holder", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.", "AUTHOR": "Stephenie Meyer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Browne", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.", "AUTHOR": "James Franco", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Englert", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Clark", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan McDermott", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.", "AUTHOR": "Christo", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.", "AUTHOR": "Irvine Welsh", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Danko", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Weiner", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Baranski", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Arnold", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Boy George", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Hearst", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Kilborn", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Charles", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they're entirely internal.", "AUTHOR": "L'Wren Scott", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Solondz", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irons", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Cavuto", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.", "AUTHOR": "Keri Russell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.", "AUTHOR": "Joss Stone", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Ann Jacobs", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Lucas", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Tamblyn", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Rieu", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Kaufman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Gold", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?", "AUTHOR": "George III", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Finney", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Jackson Browne", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Stack", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Leo", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Lately, I've been a little sad that I'm not a gay man.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is a sad game.", "AUTHOR": "George Best", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Duhamel", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Pearce", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Coyne", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Dutt", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Bergkamp", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Williams", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.", "AUTHOR": "Meg White", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Robertson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Braxton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did just show a little extra love.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hardy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Capaldi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Glazer", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Brolin", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, it's very sad material, so there's always someone upset because it's really heavy stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Rohm", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Thompson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Redbone", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Elliott", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.", "AUTHOR": "Vito Fossella", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Hart", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Vega", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.", "AUTHOR": "Norma McCorvey", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.", "AUTHOR": "Zhang Ziyi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Kudrow", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Henley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Henley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Loti", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Stockett", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Teddy Thompson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Highmore", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Highmore", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Arianda", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Chalke", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.", "AUTHOR": "Erika Slezak", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Keith", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Moss", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.", "AUTHOR": "Demian Bichir", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.", "AUTHOR": "Slavoj Zizek", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.", "AUTHOR": "John Sherman Cooper", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Baldwin", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Winters", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Attenborough", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.", "AUTHOR": "Elliott Carter", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Thomas", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.", "AUTHOR": "Tab Hunter", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.", "AUTHOR": "Jai Rodriguez", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.", "AUTHOR": "Karolina Kurkova", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Ribisi", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "What happened was very sad. Mr. Lacey told the staff that he was disappointed and appalled that the front of the book was all commentary and that he wanted hard news.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Schanberg", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Hudson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Broadbent", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rosanna Arquette", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.", "AUTHOR": "Mac Davis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.", "AUTHOR": "Kendrick Meek", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Ramone", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Gordon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Blair", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Blair", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.", "AUTHOR": "Dierks Bentley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.", "AUTHOR": "Dierks Bentley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Sweeney", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Kinnaman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Najimy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.", "AUTHOR": "Ernestine Rose", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Stiller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Dean Stanton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.", "AUTHOR": "Emeli Sande", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.", "AUTHOR": "Walton Goggins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Wiest", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.", "AUTHOR": "Dianne Wiest", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Scarfe", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Scarfe", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Rydell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Hocking", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.", "AUTHOR": "Faye Dunaway", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Robinson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.", "AUTHOR": "David Simon", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.", "AUTHOR": "Columba Bush", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.", "AUTHOR": "Columba Bush", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.", "AUTHOR": "David Edwards", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Dewan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.", "AUTHOR": "James Laughlin", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Buckley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilian Schell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Danziger", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when I'm in love, I really am very good with calling, little faxes, and visiting and I really put a lot of effort into it. I'm really not the one that's not available because of work and I'm very sad when I actually leave.", "AUTHOR": "Franka Potente", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.", "AUTHOR": "Stacie Orrico", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Doerr", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Davidson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Willow Shields", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Roberts", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Wilson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Koestler", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.", "AUTHOR": "Shana Alexander", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Mann", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Donahue", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Donahue", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Clarke", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably have the worst wardrobe. It's the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There's bad chafing, and it's always tight in all the wrong places. What's sad is that I'm kinda getting used to it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hopkins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hopkins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Solti", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan King", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck - and women loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Quivers", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.", "AUTHOR": "John Edward", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Vick", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Beacham", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Lane", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's sad to me that I had to make a decision to not play the game that I feel like I'm best at and that I love. But if it was just about the game itself, I'd be there in a heartbeat. But that's not how the real world works.", "AUTHOR": "Tiffeny Milbrett", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Russo", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Hannah", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.", "AUTHOR": "John Jewel", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Ladd", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.", "AUTHOR": "Caitlin Rose", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Roberts", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Blair", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.", "AUTHOR": "William Peter Blatty", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Perry", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row.", "AUTHOR": "Pras Michel", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to keep hobbies in L.A. Otherwise, it's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Lake Bell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Ariana Grande", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Seidl", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Boal", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Delson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Tarkenton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndsy Fonseca", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Durang", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Milla", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Osterman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony LaPaglia", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Bear", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?", "AUTHOR": "Kim Deal", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Livingston", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Bittman", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Rossner", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Daniels", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Gross", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Kulongoski", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.", "AUTHOR": "Romeo Santos", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Miller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Platt", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly McGillis", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Blackwell", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Holly", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.", "AUTHOR": "Stephane Mallarme", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Day", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Mainly, I thought of Barney as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.", "AUTHOR": "Don Knotts", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.", "AUTHOR": "Faye Wattleton", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Guy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Mazursky", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?", "AUTHOR": "Sara Gruen", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.", "AUTHOR": "Otto Frank", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Bottoms", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Haynes", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.", "AUTHOR": "George B. McClellan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!", "AUTHOR": "Matthias Schoenaerts", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Crenshaw", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Best", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Chadwick", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.", "AUTHOR": "John Ashbery", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hancock", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hancock", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.", "AUTHOR": "Deryck Whibley", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Collins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.", "AUTHOR": "Ama Ata Aidoo", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret O'Brien", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "William Proxmire", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man.", "AUTHOR": "David Shuster", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Grandpre", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Atkins", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.", "AUTHOR": "David Harris", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.", "AUTHOR": "Soledad O'Brien", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Miller", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Williams Buchanan", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Murphy", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Peterson", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Smith", "GENRE": "sad" }, { "QUOTE": "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science does not know its debt to imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Touch a scientist and you touch a child.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Wernher von Braun", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Teller", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Russell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad Lorenz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "For NASA, space is still a high priority.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Feirstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Hitchcock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.", "AUTHOR": "Wernher von Braun", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no shortcuts in evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Chargaff", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Hillary", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bacon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.", "AUTHOR": "Wernher von Braun", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.", "AUTHOR": "John von Neumann", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Pauling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Reich", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Teller", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Dana", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A satellite has no conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Walpole", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Quillen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Pierce", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Langmuir", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Battista Alberti", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Donella Meadows", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ervin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Howard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Henry Fischer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave the atom alone.", "AUTHOR": "E. Y. Harburg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'", "AUTHOR": "Dave Parnas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Barrow", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of science is a poor philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is nothing but perception.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Theology is a science of mind applied to God.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Man lives for science as well as bread.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is not an exact science, it is an art.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is but an image of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Tuchman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Dirac", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Holmes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is science made clear.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Serling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.", "AUTHOR": "Kirstie Alley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Felton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've lost my faith in science.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.", "AUTHOR": "William Bernbach", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.", "AUTHOR": "Paracelsus", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Turlington", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art and science have their meeting point in method.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lindbergh", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Turing", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is all metaphor.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Society lives by faith, and develops by science.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.", "AUTHOR": "Wanda Sykes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Warren", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device, It's just about a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.", "AUTHOR": "Philip K. Dick", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.", "AUTHOR": "William Bernbach", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science without conscience is the death of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the science of things which are not repeated.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.", "AUTHOR": "Henry W. Kendall", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is organized knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "So I decided on science when I was in college.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Unamuno", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "All science is either physics or stamp collecting.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Rutherford", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is I science is we.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Breton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Safran Foer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.", "AUTHOR": "John Glenn", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science always uses metaphor.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.", "AUTHOR": "Cleveland Abbe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is not an exact science.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bezos", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Friedrich Gauss", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Friedrich Gauss", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Bettelheim", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.", "AUTHOR": "Vannevar Bush", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "David Eddings", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Crowley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Cage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Heisenberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Post", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Bateson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Samuelson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Reich", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Land", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know anything about science.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.", "AUTHOR": "Christa McAuliffe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature engenders the science of painting.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Delaunay", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Newman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Babbage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.", "AUTHOR": "Michael P. Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Powell Hubble", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.", "AUTHOR": "John Polkinghorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Reagan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Banks Smith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bach", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.", "AUTHOR": "Josef Albers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Cable", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Groening", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislav Grof", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.", "AUTHOR": "Lev Grossman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.", "AUTHOR": "Melinda Gates", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Blavatsky", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Heisenberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is facts.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Poincare", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If we reject science, we reject the common man.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Gill", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Berger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Reed", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Smith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Eddington", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Rucker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Bergson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Leary", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Sigourney Weaver", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Husserl", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I do enjoy reading some science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always attracted to science fiction movies.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science grows like a weed every year.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Alexander", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Teller", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the systematic classification of experience.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is not addressed to poets.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Popper", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Popper", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Rosenberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.", "AUTHOR": "Laurell K. Hamilton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph W. Sockman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "With science fiction there's endless possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Torv", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of life is changing hearts and minds.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Kelvin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "Josef Albers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Ridley Scott", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.", "AUTHOR": "E. T. Bell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Thorndike", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Cornwell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is always inquiring.", "AUTHOR": "Thabo Mbeki", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Nurse", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Savage", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ross", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Carroll", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Experimentation is an active science.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science does not permit exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Bernard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bannister", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Gell-Mann", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Gell-Mann", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is more about feel than science.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Saberhagen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Toomey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Zimmer Bradley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.", "AUTHOR": "Imogen Cunningham", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.", "AUTHOR": "Imogen Cunningham", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the science of urgencies.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Parker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Luther Burbank", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Barclay", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.", "AUTHOR": "Mayer Hawthorne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pollan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no truce between science and religion.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Lucid", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Marling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Joffe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Upton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Rudy Rucker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.", "AUTHOR": "George Wald", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Leakey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.", "AUTHOR": "Danny DeVito", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCarthy", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Haddon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Edwards", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolf Arnheim", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.", "AUTHOR": "Polykarp Kusch", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Larson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Dushku", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "David Eagleman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Mach", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Gondry", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Geertz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Geertz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Geertz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nye", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.", "AUTHOR": "Sigourney Weaver", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Pinker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Mina", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Keith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Condon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is the science of being totally prepared.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Aykroyd", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Cronin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.", "AUTHOR": "John Templeton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.", "AUTHOR": "Robin G. Collingwood", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We especially need imagination in science.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the problems we've had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future - and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking to scientists, to experts in coding and to young people about.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science.", "AUTHOR": "Al Franken", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.", "AUTHOR": "Al Franken", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Minsky", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Thompson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Young", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Coburn", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is not a science.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Carlucci", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.", "AUTHOR": "Dixie Lee Ray", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.", "AUTHOR": "Bruno Mars", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Sapir", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.", "AUTHOR": "George Meredith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Trout", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Spinrad", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Foss", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Paretsky", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gilbert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Marchant", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Baker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Krauthammer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Feldstein", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I love science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Pam Grier", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.", "AUTHOR": "James Hansen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.", "AUTHOR": "James Hansen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.", "AUTHOR": "James Hansen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "From my earliest days I had a passion for science.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.", "AUTHOR": "Irvine Welsh", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lang", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Lowell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Moran", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffery Deaver", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is my country, science is my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Christiaan Huygens", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "William Hurt", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Austin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Windling", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.", "AUTHOR": "James Spader", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Jon Williams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Jon Williams", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Johanns", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.", "AUTHOR": "Warwick Davis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irons", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.", "AUTHOR": "Dinesh D'Souza", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Greeley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is made to disturb, science reassures.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Braque", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Reisch", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "People who love science fiction really do love sex.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Bright", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.", "AUTHOR": "Ulrich Beck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.", "AUTHOR": "Aisha Tyler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.", "AUTHOR": "Edouard Manet", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wesley", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Keys Moran", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Deschanel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Eysenck", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Graves", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.", "AUTHOR": "John Anderson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Gayle King", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Eyre", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus V. Pollio", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.", "AUTHOR": "John Coleman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Goddard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Behe", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is a self-sufficient activity.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Miller", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Miller", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.", "AUTHOR": "David Brin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The proper study of mankind is the science of design.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Druyan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Serge Lang", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Vance", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Vance", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Kennedy", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight Schultz", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Baker", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Hubbel Chapin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.", "AUTHOR": "Yancy Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Jeri Ryan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Pavlov", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.", "AUTHOR": "Fredrik Bajer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.", "AUTHOR": "Fredrik Bajer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.", "AUTHOR": "John Deacon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Parker Yockey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I quite enjoy science fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Lexa Doig", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Saberhagen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean M. Auel", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Saberhagen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew McConaughey", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.", "AUTHOR": "Geezer Butler", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.", "AUTHOR": "Heinz R. Pagels", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Blavatsky", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Forbes", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Lloyd", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Bishop", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Altman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.", "AUTHOR": "John Carpenter", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Richardson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.", "AUTHOR": "Charles E. Wilson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Askin", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Reitman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.", "AUTHOR": "David Hilbert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.", "AUTHOR": "David Hilbert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.", "AUTHOR": "David Hilbert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.", "AUTHOR": "David Hilbert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Coleman", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.", "AUTHOR": "Gil Gerard", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Graham", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Fischer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Flanigan", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Alva Myrdal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Grahame-Smith", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Whitfield Diffie", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Padilha", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Padilha", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Padilha", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.", "AUTHOR": "William Masters", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.", "AUTHOR": "Phillip E. Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo Antonioni", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shermer", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.", "AUTHOR": "John Carmack", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Stevenson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.", "AUTHOR": "William Petersen", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Pournelle", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Moon", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Pournelle", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.", "AUTHOR": "James C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.", "AUTHOR": "Aravind Adiga", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Gregoire", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.", "AUTHOR": "James Wood", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Foote", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Holly Compton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Boxleitner", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Langmuir", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Ferriss", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.", "AUTHOR": "Rian Johnson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.", "AUTHOR": "John Desmond Bernal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.", "AUTHOR": "John Desmond Bernal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.", "AUTHOR": "John Desmond Bernal", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Aldiss", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Cilento", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Edgerton", "GENRE": "science" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Look back, and smile on perils past.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.", "AUTHOR": "William R. Alger", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Lee", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Calment", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is the universal welcome.", "AUTHOR": "Max Eastman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile, it's free therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.", "AUTHOR": "Etta James", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Rossetti", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.", "AUTHOR": "Goldie Hawn", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Children learn to smile from their parents.", "AUTHOR": "Shinichi Suzuki", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I never smile unless I mean it.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.", "AUTHOR": "Bret Harte", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Brinsley Sheridan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Colors are the smiles of nature.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Hunt", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Powell", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Larcom", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.", "AUTHOR": "Muriel Spark", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Gray", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Pepys", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Roiphe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace begins with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. DeVos", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Red Skelton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Garbo", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is power a smile is its sword.", "AUTHOR": "John Ray", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway?", "AUTHOR": "Tim Duncan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck is not chance, it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Orr", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.", "AUTHOR": "Gena Lee Nolin", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Massey", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Clarke Duncan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.", "AUTHOR": "James Young", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Garrett", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Long", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Thompson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Fender", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone looks so much better when they smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.", "AUTHOR": "Christina G. Rossetti", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.", "AUTHOR": "James Lafferty", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bloch", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind a little Sturm und Drang. When I was doing 'Riding in Cars With Boys,' I wouldn't smile at anybody, because my character, Bev, was angry at the world. I'm the opposite. Inside my head I'd be like, God, I'll explain to you at the end of shooting that I'm not this person.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Margulies", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Cahan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Travaglia", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee Sing - though I shall never hear thee.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wolfe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Rashida Jones", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When I came into office, people said, 'Billionaire? How do they live? What do they eat? How do they sleep?' Today, they see me on the subway coming uptown. A couple of people say hi, some people smile and nod. Some people just sleep. It's not an issue.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Avery Brooks", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A smile costs about $240.", "AUTHOR": "Roma Downey", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "Ofra Haza", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!", "AUTHOR": "Jesse McCartney", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.", "AUTHOR": "Red Adair", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics you learn to always smile.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Ball", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.", "AUTHOR": "Karen McDougal", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Horton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Lover", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smile at a stranger. See what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LuPone", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Cornwall", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. I think most of my clients are drawn to a fun, flirty nature in a woman. The problem is, most women do not often feel fun and flirty.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Stanger", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Shapiro", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The bat is gone, but the smile remains.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Stargell", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Benda", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Ritter", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to inspire people to just take control of their oral health, because if we don't take care of our oral health, it affects so many different aspects of our lives. If your smile and mouth is not together, it affects your relationship, your self-esteem, your health.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Radcliffe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Corbin Bleu", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Christensen", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.", "AUTHOR": "James Dobson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Guy", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Holiday", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.", "AUTHOR": "Elinor Wylie", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing beats a great smile.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Urban", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.", "AUTHOR": "James Belushi", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.", "AUTHOR": "Patti LaBelle", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Most smiles are started by another smile.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Cavuto", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Carroll", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'", "AUTHOR": "Jon Landau", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I've never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman - she's really my only idol. It's going to be a big stretch - certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Holliday", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "They gave each other a smile with a future in it.", "AUTHOR": "Ring Lardner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You're never fully dressed without a smile.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Charnin", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I get really frustrated if people don't smile.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Kressley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.", "AUTHOR": "Roma Downey", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.", "AUTHOR": "Aishwarya Rai", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Bledsoe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I think the Lord wanted me to win to put a smile on Chinese people's faces.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Dujardin", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Westwood", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Saunders", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.", "AUTHOR": "Zebulon Pike", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.", "AUTHOR": "Sade Adu", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Stevens", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Douglas", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Herzl", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The smile of God is victory.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse McCartney", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "And I like the look on people's faces when I say I'm doing this movie called Pride and Prejudice and they kind of smile, and then I say I'm in a movie called Doom and they kind of do a double take and try and put the two things together. And they never quite manage to.", "AUTHOR": "Rosamund Pike", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Hunnam", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A simple compliment goes a really long way - for a guy to just come over and say, 'You have great hair' or 'I really like your dress,' and then just smile and walk away. That's a great move, because he's sort of putting himself out there by doing that, but it won't lead to any embarrassment if the girl isn't interested.", "AUTHOR": "Stacy Keibler", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.", "AUTHOR": "Timbaland", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Wicks", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Kane", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Morgan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.", "AUTHOR": "Guy de Maupassant", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.", "AUTHOR": "John Philpot Curran", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Reiser", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Southerners smile more than other Americans.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelton Reed", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.", "AUTHOR": "David Neeleman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Brown", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Homme", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Weatherly", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Kressley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Roma Downey", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Conniff", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Gardiner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Norman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Chopin", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Norris", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant it was like they were smiling all over.", "AUTHOR": "Byron Nelson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Matarazzo", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, 'I'm being fake,' but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Evangeline Lilly", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Berman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Rea", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Scully", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Barbeau", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Kwan", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Colfer", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant McGill", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up each and every day with a smile on my face knowing I get to do something musically.", "AUTHOR": "Two Chainz", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.", "AUTHOR": "David Allan Coe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.", "AUTHOR": "Mireille Enos", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Nielsen", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.", "AUTHOR": "Allison Krauss", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Broadbent", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Fowler", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I will know how to hold you just by the look in your eye, I will never forget - not even on the day that I die. This is a promise of my passion for you, smile at me and make it true.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lynn", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.", "AUTHOR": "Ali Smith", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Connors", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Hines", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Huxley", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Stevens", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.", "AUTHOR": "David Wells", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Arizona Muse", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.", "AUTHOR": "Alma Guillermoprieto", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Beacham", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans and it's a great way to share information with them and it's also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people's faces and letting them know what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Facinelli", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Guest", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Howe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.", "AUTHOR": "John Rowland", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Black", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people know that they are so adorable looking, all they have to do is smile and dress up and they get plenty from that. Then there are some of us who, early on, see that that doesn't work. So we joke about it.", "AUTHOR": "Merrill Markoe", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hadfield", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I do love to walk around in New York because people will notice me, smile, but they never bother anyone. New Yorkers are very cool. I love New York.", "AUTHOR": "Creed Bratton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.", "AUTHOR": "T'Keyah Crystal Keymah", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Corbin Bleu", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to smile.", "AUTHOR": "Inge de Bruijn", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Everhart", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kretschmann", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Allchin", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Thompson", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I just smile. And they - my opponents don't like it when I smile at them. They think I'm playing or something. But - like I smile throughout the whole fight. Sometimes I'll be throwing combinations and I just smile and stick my tongue out at them.", "AUTHOR": "Rau'Shee Warren", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Francois Cope", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water, but we also know what it means to see our children to begin to smile again with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Leopardi", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to promote yourself you have to have this smile on your face all the time and be this nice guy - which I am!", "AUTHOR": "Craig Roberts", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Kinnock", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Koch", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every day with a smile on my face.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ian Cusick", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to make people smile and dance, not think about things or educate them.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cook", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Ann-Margret", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Anton", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Bruckner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!", "AUTHOR": "William Cartwright", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Ball", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.", "AUTHOR": "Andrei A. Gromyko", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to make people smile.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Garwood", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.", "AUTHOR": "Teemu Selanne", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Frohman", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Porter", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Sadhu Vaswani", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Garner", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southwell", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.", "AUTHOR": "George Cooper", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "My friends and family, especially my mom and dad, are always saying I should smile more.", "AUTHOR": "Dillon Casey", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Bremer", "GENRE": "smile" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is more to life than increasing its speed.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.", "AUTHOR": "C. Wright Mills", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.", "AUTHOR": "A. Whitney Brown", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.", "AUTHOR": "Boyd Rice", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not a fragrant world.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Caen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?", "AUTHOR": "Irv Kupcinet", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Medawar", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Kingsmill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Bushnell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Barzun", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.", "AUTHOR": "Art Buchwald", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.", "AUTHOR": "Max Cannon", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.", "AUTHOR": "Randolph Bourne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Solanas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.", "AUTHOR": "Al Roker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good for society to have this introspection.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Verges", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.", "AUTHOR": "A. Bartlett Giamatti", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.", "AUTHOR": "Ednita Nazario", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The society based on production is only productive, not creative.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.", "AUTHOR": "Charles W. Pickering", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiness of society is the end of government.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society therefore is an ancient as the world.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernst Fischer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kingston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is at odds with itself.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the first duty of society is justice.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The family is the first essential cell of human society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have to face the reality that in a society where there is a legitimate threat of terrorism, not being able to see one's face, not being able to have some sense of communication in that way, is for many societies a challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.", "AUTHOR": "R. D. Laing", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.", "AUTHOR": "Bhumibol Adulyadej", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Putin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Rollo May", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is always a commentary on society.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.", "AUTHOR": "Robert W. Service", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Rothbard", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The most violent element in society is ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.", "AUTHOR": "Morrie Schwartz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "Robert W. Service", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bernays", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of the face can smile while the other is pinched.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.", "AUTHOR": "Busta Rhymes", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.", "AUTHOR": "Chili Davis", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Y. Napier", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the real architects of society.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jermaine Jackson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Haley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.", "AUTHOR": "Bayard Rustin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.", "AUTHOR": "David Korten", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Bonds", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Rotten", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Wolf", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.", "AUTHOR": "Charles R. Swindoll", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Tutu", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Chisholm", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Stella Adler", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.", "AUTHOR": "Olof Palme", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No emancipation without that of society.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Ruben Blades", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Browne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no higher value in our society than integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.", "AUTHOR": "Anwar Sadat", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Zetkin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "America's a very traumatized society.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Bronte", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Sotomayor", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "A. Bartlett Giamatti", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Brennan, Jr.", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.", "AUTHOR": "John T. Flynn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.", "AUTHOR": "Jinato Hu", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.", "AUTHOR": "Carter Burwell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Rotten", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We've turned into a whining society.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Grey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What's done to children, they will do to society.", "AUTHOR": "Karl A. Menninger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society lives by faith, and develops by science.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.", "AUTHOR": "James Connolly", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles E. Wilson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the stakeholders in society at large not just shareholders, but also employees, the citizens of our communities, and those who care about the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Nat Turner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Charles", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Light", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Quinto", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Acton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.", "AUTHOR": "John Naisbitt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about time that society accepts people for who they are.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Hunter", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.", "AUTHOR": "J. Edgar Hoover", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Kropotkin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Kropotkin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Chamfort", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We need proof in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.", "AUTHOR": "Chester Brown", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.", "AUTHOR": "Ishmael Reed", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.", "AUTHOR": "Abbe Pierre", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.", "AUTHOR": "Ajay Devgan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights describes the family as the natural and fundamental unit of society. It follows that any choice and decision with regard to the size of the family must irrevocably rest with the family itself, and cannot be made by anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'", "AUTHOR": "Pete Townshend", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable it's not morally right it's just not going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Hagedorn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogden Stiers", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports are a microcosm of society.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Levin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.", "AUTHOR": "John Ralston Saul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich August von Hayek", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.", "AUTHOR": "James Baldwin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.", "AUTHOR": "Baldwin Spencer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.", "AUTHOR": "Natan Sharansky", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Althusser", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Brand", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.", "AUTHOR": "John Boyd Orr", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's upsetting to be a man in our society.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hefner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What we do as a society is seek simple answers.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Koontz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Hoff Sommers", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.", "AUTHOR": "John Gilmore", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Pervez Musharraf", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Schwartz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Page", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Elijah Wood", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Hammill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.", "AUTHOR": "Hans-Georg Gadamer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Atkinson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What is a society without a heroic dimension?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Baudrillard", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bork", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The great hope of society is in individual character.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Dawson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.", "AUTHOR": "John Andrew Holmes", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.", "AUTHOR": "Lester Bangs", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.", "AUTHOR": "Lester Bangs", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Benn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of art in society differs for every artist.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.", "AUTHOR": "James Earl Jones", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our whole society is instantaneous.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Jordan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.", "AUTHOR": "C. J. Cherryh", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Hume", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Jim DeMint", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bernanos", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.", "AUTHOR": "Ramsey Clark", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But the development of human society does not go straight forward and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Thomas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in our society is so purposeful.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Bronowski", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Douglas", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Lancaster", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.", "AUTHOR": "John Zorn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.", "AUTHOR": "Zakk Wylde", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Niven", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Delors", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.", "AUTHOR": "Henry St. John", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.", "AUTHOR": "Elia Kazan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.", "AUTHOR": "Roland Barthes", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Blair", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clegg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolf Arnheim", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Casey", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.", "AUTHOR": "Quincy Jones", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Shel Silverstein", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Oliphant", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now they think that's going to sort things out.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.", "AUTHOR": "E. L. Doctorow", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Helms", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.", "AUTHOR": "Peter L. Berger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Chandler", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.", "AUTHOR": "Henrik Ibsen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Fisher", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Putin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Wolf", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Perkins Gilman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Rutherford B. Hayes", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.", "AUTHOR": "Kjell Magne Bondevik", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Joan D. Vinge", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Mankiller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.", "AUTHOR": "Rainn Wilson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Stevens", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "Ginnifer Goodwin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.", "AUTHOR": "Stockwell Day", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.", "AUTHOR": "Roy H. Williams", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Marino", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.", "AUTHOR": "Abbas Kiarostami", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.", "AUTHOR": "Ma Jian", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The public school has become the established church of secular society.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fonda", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.", "AUTHOR": "Strom Thurmond", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.", "AUTHOR": "George Mason", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Mitchell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bishop", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.", "AUTHOR": "Abdolkarim Soroush", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Miller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Babington Macaulay", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As society advances the standard of poverty rises.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Parker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.", "AUTHOR": "Naguib Mahfouz", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Dalio", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Terri Apter", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Kempthorne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.", "AUTHOR": "Delphine de Girardin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Acker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Russell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Sheen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Kent Conrad", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.", "AUTHOR": "John Ralston Saul", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Seagal", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Carlyle", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph A. Schumpeter", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Hawke", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "John Woolman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Sturgeon", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.", "AUTHOR": "Talcott Parsons", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Swaggart", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.", "AUTHOR": "John Kasich", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Donaldson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bissinger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.", "AUTHOR": "William Blackstone", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Beuys", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Tambo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.", "AUTHOR": "Peter L. Berger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Most", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Most", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.", "AUTHOR": "Ahmet Necdet Sezner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Caperton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.", "AUTHOR": "John Madden", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.", "AUTHOR": "Preston Manning", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Penn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mullan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Koch", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Skousen", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bond", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bond", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bond", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Bond", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig von Mises", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.", "AUTHOR": "C. Northcote Parkinson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Hanson", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.", "AUTHOR": "James Earl Jones", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much of our society looks for people to fail.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gropius", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'", "AUTHOR": "Ernestine Rose", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Kahn", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Marat Safin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Gitlin", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Guillermo Cabrera Infante", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Rangel", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Feldman", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Butler", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.", "AUTHOR": "Judi Dench", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You forget that you do choose your life and there are so many things to be grateful for and I feel like society has gotten to that point where we're always looking for the next and the better and we lose sight of what's actually in front of us.", "AUTHOR": "Shailene Woodley", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Mayne", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "We are what make up society.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Paton", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.", "AUTHOR": "Serj Tankian", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Lewis", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Bashar al-Assad", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Jay Gould", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Robertson Davies", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.", "AUTHOR": "Lee R. Raymond", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.", "AUTHOR": "Ian MacKaye", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The man in our society is the breadwinner the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Fields", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Grahame", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Junger", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.", "AUTHOR": "David Korten", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth L. Pike", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.", "AUTHOR": "Frances O'Grady", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole system of society tells you what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "society" }, { "QUOTE": "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is a good walk spoiled.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Gable", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.", "AUTHOR": "Rogers Hornsby", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bouton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.", "AUTHOR": "Gordie Howe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Landry", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't win unless you learn how to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports do not build character. They reveal it.", "AUTHOR": "Heywood Broun", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You win some, lose some, and wreck some.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Champions keep playing until they get it right.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.", "AUTHOR": "Red Auerbach", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.", "AUTHOR": "John Leonard", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Singletary", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Owens", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.", "AUTHOR": "James Patrick Murray", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Jackson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liddell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Lemmon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Martin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Benny", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harvey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Quayle", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Unser", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Rockne", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Fans don't boo nobodies.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Jackson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Rose", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Jackson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Garvey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bishop", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Wrestling is ballet with violence.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is about timing.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Joe DiMaggio", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.", "AUTHOR": "Rogers Hornsby", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Switzer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Coffey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Banks", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Most ball games are lost, not won.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing has become America's tragic theater.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hogan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Veeck", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Lemon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.", "AUTHOR": "Al McGuire", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All sports for all people.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes in football you have to score goals.", "AUTHOR": "Thierry Henry", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Chilton Pearce", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hogan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports are a microcosm of society.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Barkley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Gray skies are just clouds passing over.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gifford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.", "AUTHOR": "George Brett", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Adcock", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Spahn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?", "AUTHOR": "Al Boliska", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Cohen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Bouton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball life is a tough life on the family.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Snead", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.", "AUTHOR": "John Madden", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.", "AUTHOR": "Joe E. Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hogan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Collins", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.", "AUTHOR": "George Deukmejian", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Trevino", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Garagiola", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Palmer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The integrity of the game is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ueberroth", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Wilson Lynd", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Ralph Augustine", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Toomey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spalding", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.", "AUTHOR": "Grantland Rice", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody roots for Goliath.", "AUTHOR": "Wilt Chamberlain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll let the racket do the talking.", "AUTHOR": "John McEnroe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.", "AUTHOR": "Hugo Black", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Caray", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Garagiola", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gifford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Russell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Cobb", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Norman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Vardon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Price", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Connors", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.", "AUTHOR": "Greg LeMond", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.", "AUTHOR": "Greg LeMond", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'", "AUTHOR": "Joe Garagiola", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.", "AUTHOR": "Whitey Herzog", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Antonio Samaranch", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Mathewson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ueberroth", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ueberroth", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Kahn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Kahn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Kahn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Faldo", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.", "AUTHOR": "Gary McCord", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.", "AUTHOR": "Gary McCord", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Verdi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Verdi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Price", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.", "AUTHOR": "Charley Lau", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Bolt", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.", "AUTHOR": "Todd English", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Orr", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.", "AUTHOR": "Thorstein Veblen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm not a big sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy sports in person.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ferdinand Porsche", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.", "AUTHOR": "Shia LaBeouf", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Walker", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Fleming", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Crawford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is human life in microcosm.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Underwood", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot mix sports with politics.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.", "AUTHOR": "John Madden", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.", "AUTHOR": "Rooney Mara", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is the toy department of human life.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Cosell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is like a war without the killing.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Jackson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a big sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Neill", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to use sports for social change.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Kluger", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had an interest in sports across the board.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.", "AUTHOR": "Gabrielle Union", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm nothing more than a sports slave.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much hypocrisy in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Cannon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.", "AUTHOR": "Joaquin Phoenix", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.", "AUTHOR": "Leighton Meester", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Chesney", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bradley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I play sports.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hutcherson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Lopez", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Books had instant replay long before televised sports.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Wales", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Robbins", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.", "AUTHOR": "Rosabeth Moss Kanter", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I always separated sports and my personal life.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.", "AUTHOR": "John Major", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Redgrave", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Alexis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Namath", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Orr", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.", "AUTHOR": "Yani Tseng", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Warne", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.", "AUTHOR": "Mahesh Bhupathi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Griffin III", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hurley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Albom", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Seau", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Larry King", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Brubeck", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?", "AUTHOR": "David Millar", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Sebastian Vettel", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.", "AUTHOR": "Rory McIlroy", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Caan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Judd Nelson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.", "AUTHOR": "Terrell Owens", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Montana", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Feller", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Bode Miller", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.", "AUTHOR": "Bernhard Langer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Steinberg", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Shorter", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Seger", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Haney", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Benicio Del Toro", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.", "AUTHOR": "Branch Rickey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Page", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Bateman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry B. Jenkins", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.", "AUTHOR": "Verne Troyer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!", "AUTHOR": "Jay Kay", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Fisher", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre de Coubertin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Snyder", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Snyder", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Jonas", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Katarina Witt", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Lendl", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ian Black", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Gugino", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.", "AUTHOR": "Bill James", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.", "AUTHOR": "Bill James", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'", "AUTHOR": "Peyton Manning", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Blomberg", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "David Boreanaz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.", "AUTHOR": "A. Bartlett Giamatti", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Spitz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Simon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "But I was very much into sports when I was a child.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Bradley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sports and I love sports movies.", "AUTHOR": "James Van Der Beek", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Swoopes", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that every single person should play sports.", "AUTHOR": "Donovan Bailey", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.", "AUTHOR": "Norm MacDonald", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.", "AUTHOR": "Carmelo Anthony", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a huge sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Shannon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Navratilova", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evert", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny.", "AUTHOR": "Carolyn Murphy", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.", "AUTHOR": "Trishelle Cannatella", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Walton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.", "AUTHOR": "Krista Allen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Bell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Gallacher", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Gallacher", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Ford", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.", "AUTHOR": "David Duval", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Biel", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Garcia", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Atkins", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jenner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Montana", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been around dudes and sports.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In the morning, I reach for the sports page.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Guerrero", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Alexander", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Bailey Hutchison", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Joseph", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Joseph", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a sports girl.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.", "AUTHOR": "Casper Van Dien", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.", "AUTHOR": "Julianna Baggott", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.", "AUTHOR": "Jim McKay", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Moneymaker", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Kylie Bax", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.", "AUTHOR": "Althea Gibson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Russell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Russell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Solo", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manganiello", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Gregg Easterbrook", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Gregg Easterbrook", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hecht", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.", "AUTHOR": "Rio Ferdinand", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Trebek", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.", "AUTHOR": "George Eads", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Bret Easton Ellis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.", "AUTHOR": "Lorrie Fair", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Roddick", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Schon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.", "AUTHOR": "Retief Goosen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.", "AUTHOR": "Retief Goosen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.", "AUTHOR": "Retief Goosen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Schaap", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Schaap", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.", "AUTHOR": "John McEnroe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Patrick Jann", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.", "AUTHOR": "Kohei Uchimura", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lou Retton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Bissinger", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Fischer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Griffiths", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.", "AUTHOR": "William Petersen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Dante", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Harbach", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Harbach", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.", "AUTHOR": "Will McDonough", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.", "AUTHOR": "Will McDonough", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think money in general hurts all sports.", "AUTHOR": "Will McDonough", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Jay Lifton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Dre", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Owen", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to do a sports movie.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Durkin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Durkin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Van Zandt", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big sports fan in general.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Rendell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Finch", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.", "AUTHOR": "James S. Coleman", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports life is very short.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.", "AUTHOR": "Sergei Bubka", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.", "AUTHOR": "Richard H. Davis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Hammond", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bergin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Rapaport", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports and politics don't mix.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Heiden", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Bledsoe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Ludwig", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Taylor", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Greene", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bunton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.", "AUTHOR": "Cam Gigandet", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a huge sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Anthony", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, sports are big, big, big business.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Lesh", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Davidson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Ruggiero", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Ruggiero", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Royko", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Motley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.", "AUTHOR": "Jurgen Klinsmann", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Sheckler", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.", "AUTHOR": "George Leonard", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Astin", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Cornett", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Cain", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Ferriss", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lewis Perl", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Epps", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Curtis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Welling", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.", "AUTHOR": "J. Philippe Rushton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.", "AUTHOR": "Bernadine Dohrn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love all sports.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Hall", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports are not for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Hall", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Farrelly", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Conway", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Mohr", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Cooney", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Charles", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Chu", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lawler", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Pierce", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Pierce", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Yune", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Professional sports are something they can't control.", "AUTHOR": "Troy Vincent", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.", "AUTHOR": "Callie Khouri", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Lewis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.", "AUTHOR": "January Jones", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Wagner", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Brooklyn Decker", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.", "AUTHOR": "James E. Rogers", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Clinton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Levy", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Lobo", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Lee", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Sutton Foster", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Bristow", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Peart", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Peart", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Swann", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Professional sports is a business.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Swann", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.", "AUTHOR": "Al Michaels", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.", "AUTHOR": "Al Michaels", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.", "AUTHOR": "Al Kaline", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Norm MacDonald", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.", "AUTHOR": "Bar Refaeli", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry West", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Parsons", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.", "AUTHOR": "Xi Jinping", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Galecki", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.", "AUTHOR": "John Cena", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Wie", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.", "AUTHOR": "Stedman Graham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.", "AUTHOR": "Stedman Graham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.", "AUTHOR": "Rube Goldberg", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know much about sports.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Russo", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been into sports and being physical.", "AUTHOR": "Moon Bloodgood", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.", "AUTHOR": "Francine Prose", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's good for sports cars to be united, to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When you have two different series, fans don't know which way to go, when you only have one I think it's good for the sport.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Pablo Montoya", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Burrell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Louganis", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.", "AUTHOR": "James Collins", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lampley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In sports, teams win and individuals don't.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Tarkenton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.", "AUTHOR": "Brian McBride", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Monroe", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.", "AUTHOR": "William Landay", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.", "AUTHOR": "Kaitlin Olson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Graham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Pudi", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hicks", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Klein", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Kohl", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Shaw", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.", "AUTHOR": "Angie Everhart", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Dohring", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Ronstadt", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Marg Helgenberger", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Ferrara", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Ferrara", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Theatre sports is the best improv training period.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Brady", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kent Cooke", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Tookes", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Carter", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played sports in high school and in college.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bernthal", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Castillo", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis H. Lapham", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Schmidt", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Taylor", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Dern", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Russell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Vartan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.", "AUTHOR": "Althea Gibson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dorsett", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.", "AUTHOR": "Breaux Greer", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Barney", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Visser", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Visser", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Judge", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Judge", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'", "AUTHOR": "Kate Upton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is all about money.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Samuels", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Markell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Clark", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Smith", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Hussein", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Piazza", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.", "AUTHOR": "William Sanderson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.", "AUTHOR": "Deion Sanders", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Jackson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Swimming is one of the hardest sports.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Rice", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'", "AUTHOR": "Kal Penn", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Knight", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Knight", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.", "AUTHOR": "Jana Novotna", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Kerr", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.", "AUTHOR": "John Michael Higgins", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Tveit", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.", "AUTHOR": "Corey Stoll", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.", "AUTHOR": "Yeardley Smith", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Huber", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Keaton", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Blake", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.", "AUTHOR": "Im Dong-Hyun", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Blank", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Schiller", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Ryan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Wilbon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Wilbon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Michele", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was certain I was going to do something in sports.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Christopher", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Walsh", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Simms", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Price", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Price", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Tiki Barber", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Fossett", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Avery Brundage", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.", "AUTHOR": "Avery Brundage", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.", "AUTHOR": "Mike O'Malley", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.", "AUTHOR": "William Sloane Coffin, Jr.", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Fussell", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Knight", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.", "AUTHOR": "C. J. Box", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Mateschitz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Mateschitz", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hayes", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Beamon", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Brickhouse", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!", "AUTHOR": "Jay Ryan", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.", "AUTHOR": "Junior Johnson", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Basso", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Wallem", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.", "AUTHOR": "Meyer Lansky", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't pay much attention to sports.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Abramoff", "GENRE": "sports" }, { "QUOTE": "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "That which does not kill us makes us stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence G. Lovasik", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps I am stronger than I think.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the gentle are ever really strong.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Viorst", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Rosten", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.", "AUTHOR": "Marge Piercy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Blanka Vlasic", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is a source of great strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and time do more than strength or passion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Women may fall when there's no strength in men.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Britten", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We acquire the strength we have overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is my strength and my weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Aishwarya Rai", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lerner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "People do not lack strength they lack will.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.", "AUTHOR": "Ho Chi Minh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Murdock", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.", "AUTHOR": "Pythagoras", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Friedan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You're blessed if you have the strength to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Ruby Dee", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul with all his strength and with all his will.", "AUTHOR": "Max Muller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.", "AUTHOR": "Madame de Stael", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Gardner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "James Hetfield", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Martin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Hare", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Josephine Baker", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our passion is our strength.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Joe Armstrong", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.", "AUTHOR": "Chiang Kai-shek", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Humphrey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Foucault", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Arguello", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Pasteur", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'", "AUTHOR": "Mariah Carey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Cudworth", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "America's strength is not our diversity our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Neal", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Jackson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.", "AUTHOR": "James Freeman Clarke", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.", "AUTHOR": "Shemar Moore", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Shields", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Huey Newton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Julia Cooper", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Brand", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't beat people with my strength I don't have a hard shot I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Cojocaru", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.", "AUTHOR": "Emmet Fox", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.", "AUTHOR": "Richard E. Byrd", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gramsci", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.", "AUTHOR": "Tryon Edwards", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "True strength is delicate.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Berliawsky Nevelson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Drummond", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Shackleton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Solitude is strength to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Brunton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Thicke", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You had no right to be born for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Holloway", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I am climbing a difficult road but the glory gives me strength.", "AUTHOR": "Sextus Propertius", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of America is not in Washington.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Banneker", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Neville", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .", "AUTHOR": "Maria Weston Chapman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Sextus Propertius", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.", "AUTHOR": "Richard L. Evans", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis Carrel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Elton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Keeshan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always drawn strength from being close to home.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Thomas", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.", "AUTHOR": "Chloe Sevigny", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Cranston", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to exude strength and intelligence.", "AUTHOR": "Portia de Rossi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about capital.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.", "AUTHOR": "William Gurnall", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Didion", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Scargill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Scargill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Kuhn", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, France, but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Clark Powell", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Verhofstadt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.", "AUTHOR": "Vinton Cerf", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I maintain by going to spin four or five days a week. I love that I can get a solid butt-kicking in 40 minutes. I also strength train two or three times a week.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Almodovar", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Snipes", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Jonson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Grylls", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Downey, Jr.", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bunch", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Etheridge", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.", "AUTHOR": "George Mason", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.", "AUTHOR": "Ossie Davis", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mcewan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer M. Granholm", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.", "AUTHOR": "John L. Lewis", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.", "AUTHOR": "Ariel Sharon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Amis", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Robert", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.", "AUTHOR": "Jack LaLanne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Rodman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Physical strength in a woman - that's what I am.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Locke", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Scottoline", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Waddell", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Klein", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Peck", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Forget", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Mulroney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.", "AUTHOR": "William Moulton Marston", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.", "AUTHOR": "William Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Trigiani", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Shields", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Freud", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Secondat", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Shea", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Hunt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength is my enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Placido Domingo", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Mandelson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Sills", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Taraji P. Henson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.", "AUTHOR": "John Hoeven", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Walden", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.", "AUTHOR": "Al-Waleed bin Talal", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Palmer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Dayan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the strength to endure it all.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Dayan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Turgenev", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.", "AUTHOR": "Hassan Nasrallah", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Yamaguchi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Francis Richter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Corr", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Gondry", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.", "AUTHOR": "Branch Rickey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.", "AUTHOR": "Meghan O'Rourke", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Christopher", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There's so much with my character in 'Dredd' that I identify with. She's my favorite character I think I've ever played. She's the most dynamic and fascinating woman that I could even imagine playing, so I love her. What I love about her is that her sensitivity is her greatest strength.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Carson Kressley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.", "AUTHOR": "Janelle Monae", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Beyonce Knowles", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Reid", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Carano", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.", "AUTHOR": "Mark-Paul Gosselaar", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Bertrand Aristide", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Stabenow", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Lederberg", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I like strength. I depend on my own.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Lynne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.", "AUTHOR": "James Anthony Froude", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Kramnik", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.", "AUTHOR": "John Dos Passos", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Lewis", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.", "AUTHOR": "Marge Piercy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Sachs", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Maddow", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Brandes", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Ferraro", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Wray", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Stiller", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Terrorists have failed to trigger mass conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. We should draw strength from that fact.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hunter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Slaughter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.", "AUTHOR": "Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.", "AUTHOR": "Gerhard Schroder", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cramer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Landon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Buchner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.", "AUTHOR": "George Papandreou", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore C. Sorensen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Benedict", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonsus Liguori", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Greenwood", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Raimi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Shandling", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Aisha Tyler", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Swetchine", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Bancroft", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I have always trusted each other, and I have to thank her strength.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Anderson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Federer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.", "AUTHOR": "John Frankenheimer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed El-Erian", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and I've had it. I haven't got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I don't get a lot of expression on the keyboard.", "AUTHOR": "Midge Ure", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We get strength and encouragement from watching children.", "AUTHOR": "Hayao Miyazaki", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Ebbers", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.", "AUTHOR": "Picabo Street", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Byrne", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Bawden", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Exercise helps me with stress. It changes your brain chemistry. I turn to Ashtanga yoga when I feel the need to relax. I love it, but it's not right for everybody. It's taught to you a little bit at a time, according to your body type and your strength. That keeps things challenging.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Edelstein", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "William Cavendish", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.", "AUTHOR": "Moshe Sharett", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Finley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Finley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Bloom", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Buckingham", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength was the virtue of paganism obedience is the virtue of Christianity.", "AUTHOR": "David Hare", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Bush", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Campbell", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.", "AUTHOR": "Tammy Bruce", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Costa", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Nathans", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Frankfurter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Gaines", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have my own strength.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Hagen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.", "AUTHOR": "Richard J. Daley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.", "AUTHOR": "Madame Swetchine", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.", "AUTHOR": "William C. Bryant", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'", "AUTHOR": "Willem Dafoe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Bechdel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Alan Sekulow", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Joseph", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Jintao", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Radek", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.", "AUTHOR": "Georgios A. Papandreou", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich List", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Julio Iglesias", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.", "AUTHOR": "William Moulton Marston", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?", "AUTHOR": "Georges Duhamel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.", "AUTHOR": "John Lothrop Motley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Lampson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Murkowski", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.", "AUTHOR": "Sadaharu Oh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.", "AUTHOR": "Everett Dirksen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Moonves", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density core strength exercise for a stable mid-section and stretching to maintain mobility.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.", "AUTHOR": "Meshell Ndegeocello", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Sheffield", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Andrei Sakharov", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues and it has not helped.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Forbes", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Conklin", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Smedley", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Estefan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Burton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Badiou", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Holbrooke", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Harrison", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Watts", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Albini", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Canseco", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.", "AUTHOR": "Ma Jian", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Lieberman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Chadwick", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.", "AUTHOR": "Li Ka Shing", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Reich", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.", "AUTHOR": "Don King", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Rodgers", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Josefa Iloilo", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Tiegs", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Manchester", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Fort", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.", "AUTHOR": "Laurent Fabius", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Hurd", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Vest", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Harrelson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Fisher", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe my past is my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Michel Martelly", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.", "AUTHOR": "John Bacon", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Williams", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "God is stronger than their strength, more loving than their uttermost love, and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others, they have obtained the infallible proof, that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Smith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was captain and should have set the example. I would lift a minimum of weights. Mine was natural physical strength. I always thought quickness and agility were much more important.", "AUTHOR": "Merlin Olsen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I like form and shape and strength in pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Ritts", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Yeun", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.", "AUTHOR": "Bainbridge Colby", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Tusk", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Kerr", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.", "AUTHOR": "Jaclyn Smith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.", "AUTHOR": "David Crystal", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Griffith Joyner", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Stojko", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Stojko", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Hall", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.", "AUTHOR": "John Shimkus", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Spinks", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Nelson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Reddick", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.", "AUTHOR": "James Kent", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Davey Havok", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Smalls", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Bratt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Kaufman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Benedict", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Clift", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nelson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.", "AUTHOR": "John Bates Clark", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Peel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.", "AUTHOR": "Thorstein Veblen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Huber", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Elliot", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Lohman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Gray", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Michael McCaul", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and I'm doing lots of volume for strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Brown", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Kaus", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.", "AUTHOR": "Lianne La Havas", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lynn Rajskub", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Grey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.", "AUTHOR": "John Sebastian", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.", "AUTHOR": "Stacy Keach", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also vulnerable enough to be in love. It's just those two sides - like, I don't know why, but women for some reason aren't attracted to normal guys, like, guys who are in between.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Peters", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Blake Lively", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "We must keep both our femininity and our strength.", "AUTHOR": "Indra Devi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Griffith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.", "AUTHOR": "Dudley Moore", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.", "AUTHOR": "William Bligh", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament it is its ancient and natural strength the floating bulwark of the island.", "AUTHOR": "William Blackstone", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real strength of our nation comes from our people - not our buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Enzi", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Stern", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Stern", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.", "AUTHOR": "Dusty Baker", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Olson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Vick", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Pincus", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Kennedy", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.", "AUTHOR": "John George Nicolay", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jayne Meadows", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.", "AUTHOR": "William Cavendish", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Villard", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.", "AUTHOR": "Stafford Cripps", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Sheehan", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Herer", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.", "AUTHOR": "Hassanal Bolkiah", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.", "AUTHOR": "Vita Sackville-West", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Landrieu", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Maritain", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.", "AUTHOR": "Young Buck", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.", "AUTHOR": "Josephus Daniels", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Brown", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Doyle", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Finkelstein", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Wilkinson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm Keitel", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't.", "AUTHOR": "Mark E. Smith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Henri", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Indurain", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.", "AUTHOR": "Paul von Hindenburg", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.", "AUTHOR": "Sri Mulyani Indrawati", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.", "AUTHOR": "Laurent Jalabert", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Verhofstadt", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Jarry", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.", "AUTHOR": "John Knowles", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Booth", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Phillips", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.", "AUTHOR": "John Forsythe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Gibson", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.", "AUTHOR": "Etty Hillesum", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably the least flexible athlete you'll find. When it comes to yoga, I can't get in the positions and I can't hold them. You have to be pretty flexible to do it. Once you get certain positions, you have to have the core strength to hold those positions. It's a pretty good workout.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Blake", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Millepied", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.", "AUTHOR": "Jaime King", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.", "AUTHOR": "Aime Cesaire", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrice Webb", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.", "AUTHOR": "George Porter", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Law Olmsted", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.", "AUTHOR": "Dagmara Dominczyk", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Blythe", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.", "AUTHOR": "Claiborne Pell", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rosen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I'm an action star or if that's just how things are shaping up. I would hate to be boxed into that forever, but it's probably just a strength as far as my type goes, and I'm fine with that.", "AUTHOR": "Jai Courtney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Jong-un", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.", "AUTHOR": "Max Jacob", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I give myself strength by staying away from any music.", "AUTHOR": "Alannah Myles", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Holly Compton", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.", "AUTHOR": "John Boozman", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Louis MacNeice", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Jeffrey", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.", "AUTHOR": "Carry Nation", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.", "AUTHOR": "John Beecher", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia Sigourney", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength lies not in defence but in attack.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Hitler", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Hitler", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Nilsen", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Smith", "GENRE": "strength" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.", "AUTHOR": "David Brinkley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.", "AUTHOR": "David Frost", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Winn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Action is the foundational key to all success.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is success if we learn from it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Woodberry", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "As kids we're not taught how to deal with success we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia M. Child", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Eighty percent of success is showing up.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The starting point of all achievement is desire.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Diligence is the mother of good fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Winters", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Juliana Hatfield", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is dependent on effort.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "They succeed, because they think they can.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.", "AUTHOR": "Carrot Top", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.", "AUTHOR": "Sloan Wilson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Jones", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Luckman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Spacey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Larry King", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.", "AUTHOR": "Paul J. Meyer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing succeeds like success.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We fall forward to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Wilson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Berlin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing recedes like success.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Winchell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.", "AUTHOR": "Al Bernstein", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Principal", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.", "AUTHOR": "David Merrick", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Price", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Graham Bell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Andretti", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Applause waits on success.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The best revenge is massive success.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Caine", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success has always been a great liar.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Feller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The path to success is to take massive, determined action.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.", "AUTHOR": "John Carmack", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success demands singleness of purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no abiding success without commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One man cannot practice many arts with success.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Gurley Brown", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Erving", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little success where there is little laughter.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Garvey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Gretzky", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Nightingale", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jane D. Hull", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.", "AUTHOR": "Paul J. Meyer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.", "AUTHOR": "William Eardley IV", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a great deodorant.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is constancy to purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "William Pollard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Paterno", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.", "AUTHOR": "Dorthea Brande", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the child of audacity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.", "AUTHOR": "Mignon McLaughlin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Every failure is a step to success.", "AUTHOR": "William Whewell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.", "AUTHOR": "Robert W. Service", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.", "AUTHOR": "Sumner Redstone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ryan Blair", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ban Breathnach", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.", "AUTHOR": "Ramana Maharshi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to success is always under construction.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Lena Dunham", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no success without hardship.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Foster Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Kaufman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not in what you have, but who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Andretti", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kendall Adams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hilton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Rodriguez", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.", "AUTHOR": "William J. H. Boetcker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Unser", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Baden-Powell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.", "AUTHOR": "Maxwell Maltz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Bronte", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Swift", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.", "AUTHOR": "River Phoenix", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.", "AUTHOR": "Navjot Singh Sidhu", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and failure are equally disastrous.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bradley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Meltzer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.", "AUTHOR": "Tanya Tucker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success should always be just beyond your grasp.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.", "AUTHOR": "Ed McMahon", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is survival.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "William J. H. Boetcker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Feirstein", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Gonzalez", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Graham Bell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Plant", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People fall forward to success.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.", "AUTHOR": "Treat Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.", "AUTHOR": "David Joseph Schwartz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Why be a man when you can be a success?", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Francis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.", "AUTHOR": "Max Born", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Thomas", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One fails forward toward success.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Garcia", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.", "AUTHOR": "Soichiro Honda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Midler", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett Hale", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Turner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Renard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is never final, but failure can be.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Spencer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Bayard Swope", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a part of success.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Peterffy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Wolfe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.", "AUTHOR": "Herschel Walker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to success is always under construction.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Palmer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly LeBrock", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Warner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A minute's success pays the failure of years.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Ireland", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Stewart", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Faraday", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no right or wrong, success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Miley Cyrus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "George Hickenlooper", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.", "AUTHOR": "Brenda Blethyn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Lasorda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Jaworski", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Benz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success breeds success.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, success does not mean doing well.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success can't be forced.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Riley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Mankiller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I get hired by companies to hack into their systems and break into their physical facilities to find security holes. Our success rate is 100% we've always found a hole.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.", "AUTHOR": "Sting", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Rickman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Craig", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Buble", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Law Montgomery", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility, a trait not easily associated with him.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.", "AUTHOR": "Rosie O'Donnell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Hellman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Stewart", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.", "AUTHOR": "James E. Casey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Money does not guarantee success.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.", "AUTHOR": "Manny Pacquiao", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Barrymore", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The best revenge in the world is success.", "AUTHOR": "Suge Knight", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Kiam", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Kiam", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bullock", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.", "AUTHOR": "Norah Jones", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Okri", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Moss", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.", "AUTHOR": "Henry J. Heinz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?", "AUTHOR": "Larry Flynt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of success is sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Maximilian Schell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.", "AUTHOR": "Al Capp", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Zeta-Jones", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had great success being a total idiot.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Lewis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kendall Adams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Celine Dion", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Player", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas R. Dewar", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?", "AUTHOR": "Omar Epps", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.", "AUTHOR": "Dannii Minogue", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shankly", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakar Bashir", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Simon", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Adams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Ditka", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.", "AUTHOR": "Brit Hume", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Ross", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lerner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Betsey Johnson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Petty", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Ann Womack", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Prince", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Davis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the sweetest revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gerstner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Pitt", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Samuel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.", "AUTHOR": "Maude Adams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.", "AUTHOR": "John McEnroe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Roddick", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Rockefeller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success makes you less intimidated by things.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.", "AUTHOR": "Shigeru Miyamoto", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.", "AUTHOR": "Cybill Shepherd", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Sheehan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Thomas", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.", "AUTHOR": "Al Yankovic", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a lot of success I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Dane Cook", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Pessoa", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Johnston", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Taylor Thomas", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Excess is success.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.", "AUTHOR": "George Michael", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Gill", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "With 'Believe' bringing really big success for me outside of the U.K. for the first time, it meant I have been touring around the world and that led to a gap from the studio. I really feel like the gap has done me the world of good. Throughout that time I was able to collect songs that I really loved.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Bacall", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch McConnell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Radcliffe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.", "AUTHOR": "Novak Djokovic", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Bryant", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.", "AUTHOR": "Damien Hirst", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Bear Bryant", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.", "AUTHOR": "William Lloyd Garrison", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.", "AUTHOR": "Harper Lee", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Art Linkletter", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.", "AUTHOR": "John Forbes Nash", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Hutchence", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Pauley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Rommel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, success is choice and opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Ford", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.", "AUTHOR": "Damian Lewis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.", "AUTHOR": "John Hodgman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending they're shifting.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fraser", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Samberg", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?", "AUTHOR": "Jessamyn West", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My definition of success is control.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Branagh", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Sheldon", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.", "AUTHOR": "William Ellery Channing", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Jonson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Kitsch", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.", "AUTHOR": "Alain de Botton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sheehan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.", "AUTHOR": "Alec Waugh", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.", "AUTHOR": "Edward B. Butler", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Radnor", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.", "AUTHOR": "Nicki Minaj", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Claude M. Bristol", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.", "AUTHOR": "Ayelet Waldman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My literary success meant nothing to me.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Caldwell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Hammett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Perry", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Ehrenreich", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.", "AUTHOR": "Sparky Anderson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Caldwell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Peters", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Flatley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Getty", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Panetta", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Tan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success tempts many to their ruin.", "AUTHOR": "Phaedrus", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.", "AUTHOR": "Vicente Fox", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Lewis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Eugenio Montale", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Idris Elba", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.", "AUTHOR": "Knute Rockne", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Radcliffe", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Imbruglia", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Lermontov", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes in waves.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.", "AUTHOR": "Kat Dennings", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jeter", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Bernhard", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Luntz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bartiromo", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You always pass failure on your way to success.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Rooney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Elias Canetti", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.", "AUTHOR": "Wilbur Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Mac", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.", "AUTHOR": "Whoopi Goldberg", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Botham", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Genet", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Wayans", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Norton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Khan", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Chen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.", "AUTHOR": "David Schwimmer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Donaldson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.", "AUTHOR": "John James Audubon", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Noble", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.", "AUTHOR": "John J. Sweeney", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Dunham", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.", "AUTHOR": "Mika Brzezinski", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Hoult", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Gabor", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Heller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brady", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Henson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Quidde", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is 99 percent failure.", "AUTHOR": "Soichiro Honda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.", "AUTHOR": "Wiz Khalifa", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Matthews", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.", "AUTHOR": "Wiz Khalifa", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Sweet", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.", "AUTHOR": "Hakeem Olajuwon", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.", "AUTHOR": "Christy Romano", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.", "AUTHOR": "John Madden", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.", "AUTHOR": "Edsger Dijkstra", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Murray", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Daltrey", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Emerson Fosdick", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.", "AUTHOR": "Jada Pinkett Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Lou Retton", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.", "AUTHOR": "P. G. Wodehouse", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cruz", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm astonished by my success.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Steel", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Bernanke", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of my success is my hairspray.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Gere", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.", "AUTHOR": "Bode Miller", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Skousen", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kennedy", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Lane", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Foote", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "The writing of a melody is an emotional moment success doesn't make it easy.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Staubach", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame and success are very different things.", "AUTHOR": "Enya", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Goodell", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.", "AUTHOR": "Rickey Henderson", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evans", "GENRE": "success" }, { "QUOTE": "That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Tears are the silent language of grief.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Alighieri", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Ingalls Wilder", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief is the price we pay for love.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The more sympathy you give, the less you need.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief changes shape, but it never ends.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.", "AUTHOR": "Marlo Thomas", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas More", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophon", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "One often calms one's grief by recounting it.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Grant", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.", "AUTHOR": "Dirk Benedict", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The cure for sorrow is to learn something.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The only cure for grief is action.", "AUTHOR": "George Henry Lewes", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.", "AUTHOR": "William R. Alger", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Turgenev", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Henry Parkhurst", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.", "AUTHOR": "James Martineau", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not looking for sympathy at all.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.", "AUTHOR": "Davy Crockett", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Norton", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Rotten", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.", "AUTHOR": "Irving Babbitt", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ossawa Tanner", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.", "AUTHOR": "John Irving", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Louise J. Kaplan", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ford", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Hiaasen", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Nightingale", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Sauckel", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Johns", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Hopkins Adams", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Feller", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nellie Bly", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.", "AUTHOR": "S. J. Perelman", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.", "AUTHOR": "Major Taylor", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cabot Lodge", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Elton", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.", "AUTHOR": "F. H. Bradley", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Harris", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.", "AUTHOR": "Ivor Novello", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.", "AUTHOR": "Juliette Gordon Low", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.", "AUTHOR": "Erich von Stroheim", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.", "AUTHOR": "Goldwin Smith", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Bloom", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.", "AUTHOR": "John Buchanan Robinson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Szent-Gyorgyi", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Ackerman", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Green", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Ferguson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.", "AUTHOR": "Hjalmar Schacht", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.", "AUTHOR": "Anson Mount", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Kaine", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.", "AUTHOR": "Agnes Smedley", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Prachett", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Perrotta", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.", "AUTHOR": "Helmut Kohl", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Raphael Cohen", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.", "AUTHOR": "George William Russell", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Meadows", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!", "AUTHOR": "David Chalmers", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Navalny", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.", "AUTHOR": "George William Norris", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Frances E. Willard", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Morsi", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ealy", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Herbert Hedge", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Burns", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Brownie McGhee", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?", "AUTHOR": "Denis Kearney", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Tauzin", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.", "AUTHOR": "Shinzo Abe", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Olson", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Carmichael", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Paulin", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Hovhaness", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Beth Whitehead", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Stafford Cripps", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Storr", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Cornish", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Clinton Van Doren", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Feuerstein", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Grimke", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.", "AUTHOR": "John Hall", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Davies", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.", "AUTHOR": "Les Aspin", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred E. Smith", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Storey", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.", "AUTHOR": "William Hull", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Trevelyan", "GENRE": "sympathy" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Manchin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who know how to think need no teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Jampolsky", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher is a person who never says anything once.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander the Great", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.", "AUTHOR": "Thurgood Marshall", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.", "AUTHOR": "John Henrik Clarke", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.", "AUTHOR": "Carter G. Woodson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Norris", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Your best teacher is your last mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.", "AUTHOR": "A. Bartlett Giamatti", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Suffering is one of life's great teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "History is Philosophy teaching by example.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Highet", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Barton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "James S. Coleman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Bancroft", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Wylie", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.", "AUTHOR": "Fred W. Friendly", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Shalala", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Porter", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Chappelle", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Hamilton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Rohm", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "John Strachan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.", "AUTHOR": "Bainbridge Colby", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the teaching, it's the learning.", "AUTHOR": "Sly Stone", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Twitchell", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.", "AUTHOR": "James Carville", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Evangelista", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Mohr", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Hook", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Kelley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Van Doren", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.", "AUTHOR": "Minna Antrim", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.", "AUTHOR": "David E. Price", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody's a teacher if you listen.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Roberts", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a better teacher than duty.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the teacher of all things.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.", "AUTHOR": "Gracie Allen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad I was a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Law", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.", "AUTHOR": "William Jennings Bryan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.", "AUTHOR": "Neale Donald Walsch", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Callahan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Brimelow", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.", "AUTHOR": "Berenice Abbott", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Bronson Alcott", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Syd Barrett", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is a great teacher.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wellstone", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.", "AUTHOR": "Eliphas Levi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Ride", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Rogers", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Dash", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Koestler", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Bisset", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.", "AUTHOR": "Jeb Bush", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Catherine Bateson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Ford Coppola", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hardwick", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Trillin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.", "AUTHOR": "Flip Wilson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.", "AUTHOR": "A. C. Benson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.", "AUTHOR": "Rosa Luxemburg", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.", "AUTHOR": "John Mellencamp", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A good teacher is a determined person.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Highet", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes of Sinope", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Carol Oates", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Hook", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to be a teacher to my daughters.", "AUTHOR": "Carnie Wilson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Garrett", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Shepard", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Simone", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.", "AUTHOR": "Katey Sagal", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Deavere Smith", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Grohl", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Rice", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Chu", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.", "AUTHOR": "Quintilian", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.", "AUTHOR": "George Farquhar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.", "AUTHOR": "Darrell Royal", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Bloom", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Ferneyhough", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.", "AUTHOR": "Christa McAuliffe", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Colbert", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Bloom", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zandi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Clinton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Adie", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Dungy", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pratt", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Jet Li", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Ruffalo", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.", "AUTHOR": "George Farquhar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.", "AUTHOR": "Josef Albers", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.", "AUTHOR": "Liev Schreiber", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was an elementary school teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano Pavarotti", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.", "AUTHOR": "Evo Morales", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bowerman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.", "AUTHOR": "John Philip Sousa", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.", "AUTHOR": "Buddy Rich", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Huston Smith", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Tabucchi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Tabucchi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.", "AUTHOR": "Cecilia Bartoli", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.", "AUTHOR": "Norman MacCaig", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Barnes", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.", "AUTHOR": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In the ideal classroom, the teacher is either spending all of their time doing deep interventions with students on a one-on-one basis or facilitating true interactivity - labs, simulations, projects.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Khan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'", "AUTHOR": "Roddy Doyle", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.", "AUTHOR": "Alex O'Loughlin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Olsen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Hampshire", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Shue", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Laurieann Gibson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "All I wanted was to be a university teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Jalal Talabani", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.", "AUTHOR": "Vinny Guadagnino", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Beverly Cleary", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jacobi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.", "AUTHOR": "Clay Aiken", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I serve by being a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Bush", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Nunn", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Sawa", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.", "AUTHOR": "Cory Monteith", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Sugar", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Hammerstein II", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never been a teacher before, and here I was starting my first day with these eager students. There was a shortage of teachers, and they had been without a math teacher for six months. They were so excited to learn math.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Judge", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Zevon", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.", "AUTHOR": "Skeet Ulrich", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "John Madden", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Hacker", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Coverdale", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.", "AUTHOR": "James Franco", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.", "AUTHOR": "Katarina Witt", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.", "AUTHOR": "David Guterson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Adler", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.", "AUTHOR": "Loni Anderson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.", "AUTHOR": "Charisma Carpenter", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.'", "AUTHOR": "Archie Panjabi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.", "AUTHOR": "Niklaus Wirth", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Seymour Papert", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My first career was as a coach and a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Guttenberg", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Newcomb", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Williams", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.", "AUTHOR": "C. L. R. James", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gallagher", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Pompeo", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Emerson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka.", "AUTHOR": "Krist Novoselic", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Cusack", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Richardson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Ian McShane", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Pastor", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Sutton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.", "AUTHOR": "Ajay Naidu", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very studious, too much. I would never go out at weekends. I was very serious. You should have seen me in class - I was blushing and sweating every time the teacher asked me something.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Duhamel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Cameron", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Callow", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to be a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Nicky Hilton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Mull", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.", "AUTHOR": "Doug E. Fresh", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Longoria", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.", "AUTHOR": "John Mahoney", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Morris", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!", "AUTHOR": "Thom Gunn", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Gunn", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Szohr", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't a very good teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Amos Lee", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dreyfuss", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Berlioz", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Ann Inaba", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Townes Earle", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.", "AUTHOR": "Betty Buckley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'", "AUTHOR": "Betty Buckley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Kelly", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Winfield", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Moyers", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Keitel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Frank McCourt", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Reno", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.", "AUTHOR": "Toru Takemitsu", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Masur", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hamlisch", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Sternberg", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Wilber", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Boone", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Secada", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.", "AUTHOR": "Sela Ward", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Perrotta", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Farmer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sullivan Macy", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.", "AUTHOR": "Big Sean", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Sawa", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Liebman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.", "AUTHOR": "Dakota Fanning", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.", "AUTHOR": "James S. Coleman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Shapiro", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Moyer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Hamm", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Knopfler", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.", "AUTHOR": "Amartya Sen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Wiseman", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Getty", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Spiotta", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Helen Spence", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.", "AUTHOR": "Rory Bremner", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great drama teacher, and he sort of made out drama school as this incredibly difficult thing to get into: 6,000 people apply every year, and some of the schools only have 12 places. It's a phenomenally difficult thing to get into. And that excited me - I wanted that challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irvine", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Vereen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.", "AUTHOR": "William Irwin Thompson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel really good in the teacher role.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Chamberlin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Spellings", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Augusta Ward", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stegner", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hall", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Allen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.", "AUTHOR": "Elaine MacDonald", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a writer and an acting teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Hathaway", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Ziyi Zhang", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style.", "AUTHOR": "Julie London", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a ballet teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Jaclyn Smith", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.", "AUTHOR": "Valerie Simpson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.", "AUTHOR": "Mathias Rust", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.", "AUTHOR": "Paul O'Grady", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.", "AUTHOR": "Paul O'Grady", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.", "AUTHOR": "James Galway", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Teller", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'", "AUTHOR": "Miles Teller", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'", "AUTHOR": "Miles Teller", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Vikander", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.", "AUTHOR": "George Shearing", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Sandoval", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.", "AUTHOR": "John Leguizamo", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jurasik", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.", "AUTHOR": "January Jones", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If it wasn't for my drama teacher, I wouldn't be here right now.", "AUTHOR": "Kel Mitchell", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.", "AUTHOR": "Carla Bley", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool for me because I'm a director, but I'm also a teacher. I'm a lover of cinema, and I love working with people who are hungry and have the energy to really do better work.", "AUTHOR": "John Singleton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Reines", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Every child grows everything depends on the teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Shinichi Suzuki", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Donovan", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Vasari", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.", "AUTHOR": "David Eddings", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hunt", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Bauer van Straten", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Britton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.", "AUTHOR": "Alanna Ubach", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Alanna Ubach", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Bjarne Stroustrup", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'", "AUTHOR": "Ed O'Neill", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Kemper", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.", "AUTHOR": "Grazia Deledda", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Simmons", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Simmons", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.", "AUTHOR": "Krista Allen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Baldwin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Burton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.", "AUTHOR": "Niki Taylor", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!", "AUTHOR": "John Glover", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Benanti", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.", "AUTHOR": "Lucas Grabeel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Puttnam", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.", "AUTHOR": "David Puttnam", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Haddam", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Burton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman A. Hrabowski III", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Ford", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Curry", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hayes", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It's quite hard to have your mom as a teacher - it's like, she's not necessarily a 'real teacher' for me. But she'd always teach me to really hear the music, and develop my ear, and to try and hear the harmonics of the piano.", "AUTHOR": "Birdy", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.", "AUTHOR": "James Collins", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund White", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.", "AUTHOR": "Ving Rhames", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.", "AUTHOR": "Aida Turturro", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Hill", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just not a natural teacher.", "AUTHOR": "David Benioff", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Neal", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Durang", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.", "AUTHOR": "Kay Granger", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Healey", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.", "AUTHOR": "James Tobin", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Mothersbaugh", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Hugo", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side.", "AUTHOR": "Ally Condie", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.", "AUTHOR": "Didi Conn", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Marta Kristen", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.", "AUTHOR": "Simon van der Meer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Pena, Jr.", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Salva", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Bichsel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Cudi", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Cosgrove", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Gibbs", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Posey", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.", "AUTHOR": "Vijay Singh", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.", "AUTHOR": "Abdoulaye Wade", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Thomas", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.", "AUTHOR": "Eugen Herrigel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.", "AUTHOR": "Mikheil Saakashvili", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.", "AUTHOR": "Roald Hoffmann", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.", "AUTHOR": "Burl Ives", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Melvin Burgess", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.", "AUTHOR": "Sheldon Jackson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.", "AUTHOR": "Will Hermes", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.", "AUTHOR": "Ama Ata Aidoo", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.", "AUTHOR": "Jai Courtney", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Calis", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Holly Compton", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Iles", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Hufstedler", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Crosby", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond H. Fischer", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Davis", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Anderson", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanine Basinger", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stengel", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.", "AUTHOR": "Dallas Willard", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy McVeigh", "GENRE": "teacher" }, { "QUOTE": "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur C. Clarke", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have become the tools of their tools.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Kapor", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Arp", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?", "AUTHOR": "Al Boliska", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward R. Murrow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.", "AUTHOR": "B. F. Skinner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The internet is a great way to get on the net.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dole", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.", "AUTHOR": "Wernher von Braun", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Pompidou", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Defect-free software does not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Wietse Venema", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James Garrett", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You affect the world by what you browse.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has to be invented or adopted.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Niven", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.", "AUTHOR": "Tim O'Reilly", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Clark Powell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie P. Snow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Wall", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.", "AUTHOR": "Niklas Zennstrom", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Perlis", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.", "AUTHOR": "John Perry Barlow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Grove", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Cook", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.", "AUTHOR": "Orrin Hatch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.", "AUTHOR": "E. F. Schumacher", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.", "AUTHOR": "Stewart Alsop", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Sterling", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hundt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Powell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Brown", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.", "AUTHOR": "Clive James", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McNealy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Gabor", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.", "AUTHOR": "John Spencer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sagan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Zimbardo", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Popper", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology favors horrible people.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.", "AUTHOR": "John Lasseter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love technology.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur M. Schlesinger", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't really imagine music without technology.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.", "AUTHOR": "Tracy Chapman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will.", "AUTHOR": "David Hockney", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is teaching us to be human again.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Wilson Schaef", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.", "AUTHOR": "Lenny Kravitz", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Buffett", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.", "AUTHOR": "David Deutsch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Reitman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Erickson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Teller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Babangida", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.", "AUTHOR": "David Suzuki", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Schmidt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.", "AUTHOR": "John Glenn", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think technology has the answers.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Focus on your music and not technology.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Adams", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Zettel", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Johnson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.", "AUTHOR": "John Sununu", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Mitnick", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Clive James", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Vedder", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.", "AUTHOR": "Jordin Sparks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.", "AUTHOR": "James Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The great growling engine of change - technology.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Powell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.", "AUTHOR": "J. J. Abrams", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Frist", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Nolan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Vilsack", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.", "AUTHOR": "Jodi Picoult", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.", "AUTHOR": "Whitfield Diffie", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Bond", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Tadao Ando", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Schneier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Rifkin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the modern technology now.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.", "AUTHOR": "Marissa Mayer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford D. Simak", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.", "AUTHOR": "Spencer Bachus", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Rodriguez", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.", "AUTHOR": "David Frum", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Kass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Abagnale", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Performance capture is a technology, not a genre it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Serkis", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander McCall Smith", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Minoru Yamasaki", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mueller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.", "AUTHOR": "Clement Mok", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Sachs", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Stallman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.", "AUTHOR": "David Boies", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Turnbull", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Edwards", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Seacrest", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Kumar", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.", "AUTHOR": "David Copperfield", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Mason", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Sparks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Crichton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.", "AUTHOR": "Mohamed ElBaradei", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.", "AUTHOR": "Ulrich Beck", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Cornwell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.", "AUTHOR": "Chris O'Dowd", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Clancy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I see technology as being an extension of the human body.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.", "AUTHOR": "David Cronenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Ritchie", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Sawyer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Rogers", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Ebbers", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that we use technology, we live technology.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.", "AUTHOR": "John Charles Polanyi", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Lous Lange", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Lanza", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Rhys", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Reed Hastings", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Diamond", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.", "AUTHOR": "Tara Strong", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Hathaway", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Redford", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Porter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Al-Waleed bin Talal", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Banks", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Diller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners Lee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Bjorn Lomborg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?", "AUTHOR": "Matt Drudge", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job.", "AUTHOR": "John Cameron", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jackson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.", "AUTHOR": "Vinton Cerf", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.", "AUTHOR": "Dwayne Johnson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Sabol", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fraser", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.", "AUTHOR": "Baz Luhrmann", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Davies", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.", "AUTHOR": "Geddy Lee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Inslee", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Stella McCartney", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Kind", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.", "AUTHOR": "Meg Whitman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.", "AUTHOR": "John Naisbitt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.", "AUTHOR": "John Hench", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than \"able-bodied\" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people - yesterday's disabled and elderly.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel H. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kruger", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Trout", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Spinrad", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.", "AUTHOR": "John Sexton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.", "AUTHOR": "John Sexton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.", "AUTHOR": "Jurgen Habermas", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Q", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Case", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.", "AUTHOR": "Ludacris", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kerry", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.", "AUTHOR": "St. Vincent", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.", "AUTHOR": "Major Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.", "AUTHOR": "James Hansen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Rotblat", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Morrison", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Kahn", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.", "AUTHOR": "Irvine Welsh", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Danko", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Cramer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.", "AUTHOR": "John Hutton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Barr", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffery Deaver", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Ellul", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Keller", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Morton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!", "AUTHOR": "Terri Windling", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.", "AUTHOR": "Sanjay Kumar", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Jon Williams", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Markey", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.", "AUTHOR": "John Doolittle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hughes", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hughes", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hughes", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.", "AUTHOR": "Penny Marshall", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Klobuchar", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.", "AUTHOR": "Suzanne Fields", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Gates", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Dyson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.", "AUTHOR": "Glen Hansard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Merkle", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Mann", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is not good, it's neutral.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Shadyac", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.", "AUTHOR": "Reggie Watts", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Romero", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.", "AUTHOR": "Kit Bond", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hannah", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Fitzpatrick", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.", "AUTHOR": "Macklemore", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology it's the box it comes in.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Griffith", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lerner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.", "AUTHOR": "Carmelo Anthony", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The federal government... knows how to put a missile in someone's room half way around the world with technology. Why don't we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?", "AUTHOR": "Michael Nutter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Simon", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.", "AUTHOR": "James Daly", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.", "AUTHOR": "James Young", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.", "AUTHOR": "James Young", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.", "AUTHOR": "John Frankenheimer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Cliff Stearns", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Ebbers", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is not neutral.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.", "AUTHOR": "Godfrey Reggio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Richardson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Brown", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.", "AUTHOR": "Terry McAuliffe", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gramm", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.", "AUTHOR": "David Kay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Bellamy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Taylor", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.", "AUTHOR": "James Collins", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Costa", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Altman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Barksdale", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In my column series 'The Main Thing,' I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Barksdale", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Ostrofsky", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.", "AUTHOR": "Zachary Levi", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.", "AUTHOR": "Charles E. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.", "AUTHOR": "James Chanos", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.", "AUTHOR": "David Baker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Cade Bambara", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Foster Bass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Porter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.", "AUTHOR": "Vivian Campbell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Celio", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Lowe", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.", "AUTHOR": "Dax Shepard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.", "AUTHOR": "John von Neumann", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Greene Balch", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.", "AUTHOR": "Bernardo Bertolucci", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Voight", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Amiel", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Elliott", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.", "AUTHOR": "Abbe Pierre", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie Dunn", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie Dunn", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Eisner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.", "AUTHOR": "Hideki Tojo", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Yergin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Yergin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Tufte", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Buyer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Owens", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Holden", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Chiat", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Chiat", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Chiat", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Chiat", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Wojcicki", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Oxley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Galland", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Murphy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.", "AUTHOR": "An Wang", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Bell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin Bryars", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Icaza", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Sensenbrenner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Scott", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Neville", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Evans", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil Goode", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chertoff", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Kapor", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia McKinney", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Powell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Powell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Powell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.", "AUTHOR": "Don Nickles", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Deal", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.", "AUTHOR": "Wesley Morris", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Brown", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.", "AUTHOR": "Shinya Yamanaka", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.", "AUTHOR": "LeVar Burton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Dante", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Magic, like technology, is a tool.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes Lackey", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kilby", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kilby", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.", "AUTHOR": "Miroslav Vitous", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Iger", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Gordon", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.", "AUTHOR": "Vernor Vinge", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Norm Crosby", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Padilha", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Graham", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rollins", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rollins", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James Garrett", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Any powerful technology can be abused.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.", "AUTHOR": "K. Eric Drexler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.", "AUTHOR": "James Harden", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Mclaren", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Rosen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Zawinski", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is about family and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Goddard", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.", "AUTHOR": "Stewart Brand", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.", "AUTHOR": "Russ Carnahan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Fedoroff", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Cambone", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalind Wiseman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.", "AUTHOR": "Serge Haroche", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Ochoa", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Saatchi", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.", "AUTHOR": "Laurent Fabius", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.", "AUTHOR": "Laurent Fabius", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Ernst", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Thomas", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.", "AUTHOR": "Luc Ferrari", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Allman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.", "AUTHOR": "John Eaton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Vest", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Vest", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Vest", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.", "AUTHOR": "John Mica", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Spiotta", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Stewart", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksander Kwasniewski", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.", "AUTHOR": "Lee R. Raymond", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Spinrad", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Schaeffer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Holly Compton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Price", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Wright", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.", "AUTHOR": "Erik Qualman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.", "AUTHOR": "Erik Qualman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.", "AUTHOR": "Jam Master Jay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.", "AUTHOR": "Jam Master Jay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Davidson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.", "AUTHOR": "Issey Miyake", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Thompson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Thompson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Thompson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Mengel Allen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.", "AUTHOR": "Lars von Trier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.", "AUTHOR": "Sherwood Boehlert", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Garcia", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Royce", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.", "AUTHOR": "John Callahan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Waterman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Martin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Udall", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!", "AUTHOR": "Ziyi Zhang", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Englund", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Bedingfield", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.", "AUTHOR": "John Romero", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Garneau", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.", "AUTHOR": "David Crystal", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Rydell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.", "AUTHOR": "Stockard Channing", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Perry", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Davies", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Seidler", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Kearns Goodwin", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Robertson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.", "AUTHOR": "Richard D. Zanuck", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.", "AUTHOR": "Richard D. Zanuck", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Levitt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Levitt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Erskine", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Danziger", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.", "AUTHOR": "Al Jarreau", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.", "AUTHOR": "Preet Bharara", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Cook", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.", "AUTHOR": "Brian McKnight", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ek", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dolby", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dolby", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McCloud", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.", "AUTHOR": "Scott McCloud", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Romer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Riley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Bram Cohen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.", "AUTHOR": "Bram Cohen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Berg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Cleaver", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.", "AUTHOR": "David Milne", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I know nothing about technology.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Ma", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Ma", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Baker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.", "AUTHOR": "Anders Fogh Rasmussen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.", "AUTHOR": "John Dykstra", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Lorene Scafaria", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Mordechai Vanunu", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Reines", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Reines", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.", "AUTHOR": "Pauline Neville-Jones", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!", "AUTHOR": "David Prowse", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Lamb", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.", "AUTHOR": "Al Michaels", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Morial", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Garton Ash", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Koichi Tanaka", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.", "AUTHOR": "Koichi Tanaka", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Donahue", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Donahue", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.", "AUTHOR": "Lois McMaster Bujold", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Walton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Walton", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Clarke", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Turow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Hunt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Sane", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Druyan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Harrison", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.", "AUTHOR": "Soulja Boy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Naoto Kan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.", "AUTHOR": "Charles C. Mann", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Blunt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Blunt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.", "AUTHOR": "Avi Arad", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Wiesenthal", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.", "AUTHOR": "John Pistole", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.", "AUTHOR": "John Pistole", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.", "AUTHOR": "John Pistole", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.", "AUTHOR": "Geoff Downes", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Katzenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Curtis", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Elon Musk", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.", "AUTHOR": "John Harrison", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Apted", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Eisenberg", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.", "AUTHOR": "Ginni Rometty", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.", "AUTHOR": "Ginni Rometty", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Zucker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth G. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth G. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth G. Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.", "AUTHOR": "Mickey Hart", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.", "AUTHOR": "John Doerr", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Levitan", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.", "AUTHOR": "Eric S. Raymond", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.", "AUTHOR": "David Puttnam", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Yeffet", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Yeffet", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman A. Hrabowski III", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Trumbull", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Trumbull", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Trumbull", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.", "AUTHOR": "John Poindexter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.", "AUTHOR": "John Poindexter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Carter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.", "AUTHOR": "Ty Burrell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Tipper Gore", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Bronfman, Jr.", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Wedge", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Wedge", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Wedge", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Meier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.", "AUTHOR": "James Collins", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Gerstner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Wilson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Peters", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.", "AUTHOR": "William Landay", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Anka", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie P. Snow", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.", "AUTHOR": "Lennart Nilsson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Cordell Hull", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Neil", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Holt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Lefkofsky", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to be in technology for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Lefkofsky", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Boisselier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Glickman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Glickman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.", "AUTHOR": "Jack L. Chalker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.", "AUTHOR": "Art Spiegelman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Mothersbaugh", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Allen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Burke", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Burke", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Agnelli", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.", "AUTHOR": "Gianni Agnelli", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Nelson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.", "AUTHOR": "James Gunn", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.", "AUTHOR": "David Baltimore", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Misha Collins", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Crocker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Warner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Knight", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.", "AUTHOR": "Kamla Persad-Bissessar", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Slim", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.", "AUTHOR": "George Nethercutt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Samuels", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.", "AUTHOR": "John Phillips", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Moore", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Dell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.", "AUTHOR": "John Patrick", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Thiel", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Day", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dooling", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.", "AUTHOR": "Wolfgang Petersen", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Jackson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Oxley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.", "AUTHOR": "Charles F. Bass", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Zucker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Zucker", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.", "AUTHOR": "John Warnock", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.", "AUTHOR": "John Warnock", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Marie Messier", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.", "AUTHOR": "John McKinley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.", "AUTHOR": "John McKinley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.", "AUTHOR": "John McKinley", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Cisneros", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Moore", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Levy", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.", "AUTHOR": "Burton Richter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Rattray", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own if it doesn't, the thing collapses.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Newman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.", "AUTHOR": "Stu Jackson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.", "AUTHOR": "Shoshana Zuboff", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology makes the world a new place.", "AUTHOR": "Shoshana Zuboff", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.", "AUTHOR": "Robert McFarlane", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Sadoway", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.", "AUTHOR": "Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Hopper", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?", "AUTHOR": "Howard Stringer", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Duane", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Bell", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.", "AUTHOR": "David Bromstad", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Anderson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Anderson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Anderson", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Allman", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.", "AUTHOR": "Iveta Radicova", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Brown", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.", "AUTHOR": "Yoshiro Mori", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Needham", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.", "AUTHOR": "Nam June Paik", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Schmitt", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Potter", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Balsillie", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Swartz", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rash", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Turner", "GENRE": "technology" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan White", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the trustee of prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Satir", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Kamen", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Earnhardt", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Waters", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.", "AUTHOR": "John B. S. Haldane", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Lima", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.", "AUTHOR": "George Foreman", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Chen", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Burnett", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Lindsey", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Danes", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.", "AUTHOR": "Louise J. Kaplan", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.", "AUTHOR": "David Elkind", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody is a teenage idol.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Gibb", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to grow up sometime.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Argento", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Feiffer", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Snow", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.", "AUTHOR": "Penelope Spheeris", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Lee Curtis", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.", "AUTHOR": "Uma Thurman", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.", "AUTHOR": "Jena Malone", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Ladd", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hoffman", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.", "AUTHOR": "Clyde Tombaugh", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.", "AUTHOR": "Winona Ryder", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.", "AUTHOR": "Constance Baker Motley", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Lowe", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Bob Briggs", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Cormier", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.", "AUTHOR": "Milla Jovovich", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.", "AUTHOR": "Fred G. Gosman", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Cilento", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Vaughn", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a handful growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Wilde", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Otto", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Pipher", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Locklear", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Kramer", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.", "AUTHOR": "G. Stanley Hall", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.", "AUTHOR": "John Knowles", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.", "AUTHOR": "Louise J. Kaplan", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.", "AUTHOR": "Louise J. Kaplan", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Chong", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.", "AUTHOR": "Heath Ledger", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate it when people call me a teen queen.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsay Lohan", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Huckabee", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Cohen", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Sheffield", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Moyer", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Bateman", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Shue", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Collins", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Gunn", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.", "AUTHOR": "Leelee Sobieski", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.", "AUTHOR": "John Green", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.", "AUTHOR": "Art Linkletter", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Stiefvater", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Stiefvater", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Amanda Bynes", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.", "AUTHOR": "James McAvoy", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.", "AUTHOR": "Macaulay Culkin", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.", "AUTHOR": "John Walters", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Branch", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Rian Johnson", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Brody", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.", "AUTHOR": "Chantal Kreviazuk", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.", "AUTHOR": "Devon Sawa", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.", "AUTHOR": "Leif Garrett", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Trammell", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Rhea", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!", "AUTHOR": "Emily Giffin", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Cecily von Ziegesar", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Armstrong", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Dorff", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Haas", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.", "AUTHOR": "Alexa Vega", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.", "AUTHOR": "Frankie Avalon", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Stevens", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Gordon", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Hartnett", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.", "AUTHOR": "Leven Rambin", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Kirshner", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Tayari Jones", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Hunt", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!", "AUTHOR": "Jayma Mays", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.", "AUTHOR": "Lacey Chabert", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Brashares", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.", "AUTHOR": "Saskia de Brauw", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Naya Rivera", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.", "AUTHOR": "Rider Strong", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!", "AUTHOR": "Marla Sokoloff", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Ally Condie", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Mottola", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a part of Aqua Teen.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Snyder", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun Cassidy", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fehr", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Healey", "GENRE": "teen" }, { "QUOTE": "When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.", "AUTHOR": "Dalai Lama", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "God has two dwellings one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.", "AUTHOR": "Izaak Walton", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.", "AUTHOR": "LL Cool J", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Perlman", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Gordon-Levitt", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Charles Swinburne", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.", "AUTHOR": "Alton Brown", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Joyner-Kersee", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.", "AUTHOR": "Serena Williams", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.", "AUTHOR": "Enrique Iglesias", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.", "AUTHOR": "William Bennett", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.", "AUTHOR": "Usain Bolt", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.", "AUTHOR": "Sherman Alexie", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!", "AUTHOR": "Marie Corelli", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.", "AUTHOR": "James Brown", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Wahlberg", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.", "AUTHOR": "Placido Domingo", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rice", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.", "AUTHOR": "John Gresham Machen", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Russel Wallace", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Lesh", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Shain", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.", "AUTHOR": "Storm Jameson", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Lovell", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for every moment.", "AUTHOR": "Al Green", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.", "AUTHOR": "America Ferrera", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Roy", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.", "AUTHOR": "Brett Favre", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Dent", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Barnes", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am incredibly thankful for the strong support I have from my peers in the industry and of course my amazing fans.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Seymour Hoffman", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Ruess", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Hudgens", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "He enjoys much who is thankful for little.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Secker", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'Night Train' has already been a crazy ride for me. We flew around making TV appearances and stadium announcements all over the country, fueled by little more than coffee and adrenaline... so many fans jumped on board with us, and I couldn't be more thankful.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Barker", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.", "AUTHOR": "Delta Goodrem", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Hemsworth", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Poundstone", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Heard", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.", "AUTHOR": "Nikki Reed", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.", "AUTHOR": "Candace Cameron Bure", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Lautner", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Wang", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Terrence Howard", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Cobi Jones", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.", "AUTHOR": "David Talbot", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.", "AUTHOR": "Ruud van Nistelrooy", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I love going to Africa and stuff. I love going anywhere, really, but I've been to Africa a bunch of times and it's just a beautiful place that needs help, obviously, but helping people that are really thankful is really easy to do. And the people out there always seem so thankful.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Allen", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Skaggs", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Clemens", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.", "AUTHOR": "Ryne Sandberg", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Lin", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, after Boys Don't Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Martinez", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Long", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brooks", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Blume", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.", "AUTHOR": "Regina King", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Church", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Stanley", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of women in the WNBA. There's a lot of women who could be here. To be voted by the fans says a lot - that people are aware of what's going on. I'm really thankful. I think they just really appreciate my talent so I'm definitely grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Leslie", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.", "AUTHOR": "Ike Turner", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Greene", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Ribisi", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm so thankful that I've been allowed to show another side of Trish.", "AUTHOR": "Trish Stratus", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Newdow", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "William Banting", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.", "AUTHOR": "Brenda Lee", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Cantrell", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Reed", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hale", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Banda", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.", "AUTHOR": "Webb Simpson", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.", "AUTHOR": "Ariana Grande", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Lopez", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Harmon", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Working on 'Gossip Girl' was a fantastic experience. It was my first real gig and I'm thankful for it - I got to learn a lot. I'm glad I got to explore getting comfortable in my own shoes in the background on a show like 'Gossip Girl.'", "AUTHOR": "Dreama Walker", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Anderson", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Lee", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Witwer", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.", "AUTHOR": "John Hawley", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.", "AUTHOR": "Fatima Siad", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Stanley", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Dey", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Gabriel Rossetti", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Himmler", "GENRE": "thankful" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Babson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Lost time is never found again.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience and time do more than strength or passion.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You may delay, but time will not.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Michael LeBoeuf", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never plan the future by the past.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.", "AUTHOR": "Bil Keane", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Lakein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time I kill is killing me.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time moves in one direction, memory in another.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Know how to live the time that is given you.", "AUTHOR": "Dario Fo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.", "AUTHOR": "Mariel Hemingway", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time we've made it, we've had it.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Forbes", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the longest distance between two places.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.", "AUTHOR": "Dion Boucicault", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time brings all things to pass.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "But time growing old teaches all things.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.", "AUTHOR": "Menachem Mendel Schneerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Hochschild", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age and the passage of time teach all things.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.", "AUTHOR": "Yevgeny Yevtushenko", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Carroll", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.", "AUTHOR": "Max Frisch", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.", "AUTHOR": "John Wanamaker", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My time is now.", "AUTHOR": "John Turner", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I confess, I do not believe in time.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Helprin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?", "AUTHOR": "Tillie Olsen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the wisest counselor of all.", "AUTHOR": "Pericles", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.", "AUTHOR": "Giordano Bruno", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Austin Dobson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I took some time out for life.", "AUTHOR": "James L. Brooks", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.", "AUTHOR": "Delmore Schwartz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When in doubt, take more time.", "AUTHOR": "John Zimmerman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to fill time is to waste it.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.", "AUTHOR": "Tillie Olsen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There's time enough, but none to spare.", "AUTHOR": "Charles W. Chesnutt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time was God's first creation.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lang", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The present is a point just passed.", "AUTHOR": "David Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Baldwin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Brault", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time is always right to do what is right.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We must use time creatively.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Wood", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All great achievements require time.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Evans", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Robbins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.", "AUTHOR": "J. D. Salinger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.", "AUTHOR": "James Agate", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Acheson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In time we hate that which we often fear.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Duer Miller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time spent with cats is never wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Caen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and the hour run through the roughest day.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.", "AUTHOR": "Tecumseh", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Bukowski", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lamm", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and tide wait for no man.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I read poetry to save time.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I have problems is when I sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Tupac Shakur", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Cobain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold H. Glasow", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a long time to grow an old friend.", "AUTHOR": "John Leonard", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.", "AUTHOR": "Octavia Butler", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Make measurable progress in reasonable time.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Graham", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Van Ronk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We have time, there's no big rush.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Hippocrates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The next time you have a thought... let it go.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Garland", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Viktor E. Frankl", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We've protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For time is the longest distance between two places.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.", "AUTHOR": "Stewart Alsop", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsten Dunst", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "How can you think and hit at the same time?", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.", "AUTHOR": "Danielle Dax", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Knight", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Oswald Chambers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Watterson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I spend a lot of time reading.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Rudolph", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a long time to become young.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Millman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of leading the world by how much we borrow, it's time that we make sure we lead the world in how much we build and create and invest.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Earle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep working because I learn something new all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time stays, we go.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Perfection is the child of time.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Hall", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred A. Montapert", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bryson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.", "AUTHOR": "Norodom Sihanouk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Tyson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time makes more converts than reason.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Brooks", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Yastrzemski", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Berners-Lee", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Williams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Danko", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Joshua Heschel", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.", "AUTHOR": "Lydia Lunch", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time itself comes in drops.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.", "AUTHOR": "Slash", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Winfield", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Brown", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Don Zimmer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.", "AUTHOR": "Stokely Carmichael", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Lifeson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.", "AUTHOR": "Manmohan Singh", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hopkins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Ellerbee", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Borlaug", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time discovers truth.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Adler", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothea Lange", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?", "AUTHOR": "Shahrukh Khan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa See", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Bernstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Edwards", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.", "AUTHOR": "Dido Armstrong", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Collier", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Beckett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Korda", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Everett Hale", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.", "AUTHOR": "Les Brown", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.", "AUTHOR": "Skeet Ulrich", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Taylor", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Bennett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Joel A. Barker", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Gompers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We die only once, and for such a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.", "AUTHOR": "Augustine of Hippo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.", "AUTHOR": "Vance Havner", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.", "AUTHOR": "Lillian Smith", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In books lies the soul of the whole past time.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Eternity is in love with the productions of time.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Dillard", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.", "AUTHOR": "Naomi Judd", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything comes in time to those who can wait.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.", "AUTHOR": "Floyd Mayweather, Jr.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.", "AUTHOR": "Zora Neale Hurston", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvia Plath", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney J. Harris", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.", "AUTHOR": "Cleveland Amory", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is bunk.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Adams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Harwell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.", "AUTHOR": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws are silent in time of war.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Benn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Gold", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I live in a crazy time.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.", "AUTHOR": "Wynton Marsalis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry West", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Johnson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time serenity, that nothing is.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Szasz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Ney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Toffler", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'", "AUTHOR": "LeBron James", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Lucado", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Bryant Quinn", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the day that holds all time together.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I sacrifice in my love life and my social life, but those things will be there in three or four years. This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony J. D'Angelo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.", "AUTHOR": "Tallulah Bankhead", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Heatter", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Marx", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.", "AUTHOR": "Debi Thomas", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are thieves of time.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.", "AUTHOR": "Lynda Barry", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Zac Efron", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.", "AUTHOR": "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.", "AUTHOR": "Jermaine Jackson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.", "AUTHOR": "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is space and time measured by the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, everybody makes mistakes, and we've all been young and stupid. But people need to have a sense of respect, particularly in this business, because hundreds of people are ready to take your place at any time. Maybe some people should think about that.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Bush", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bosworth", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.", "AUTHOR": "Janis Joplin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Ransom", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.", "AUTHOR": "Anderson Cooper", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.", "AUTHOR": "Al McGuire", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Miller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great film should seem new every time you see it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ebert", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Bergman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Badnarik", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Shorter", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Moore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Zimbardo", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Basinger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Hamm", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Springsteen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In time of war the laws are silent.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Hackford", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Southey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Francis de Sales", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Genet", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "How time files when you's doin' all the talking.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Freddy Fender", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Sher", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A great artist is always before his time or behind it.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Rogan", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.", "AUTHOR": "Mercedes McCambridge", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.", "AUTHOR": "Suge Knight", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.", "AUTHOR": "Black Elk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Moore", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Reynolds", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?", "AUTHOR": "Freddie Mercury", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.", "AUTHOR": "George Mason", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Osmond", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.", "AUTHOR": "Axl Rose", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Claire McCaskill", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. It's just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kerouac", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kronenberger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Weinstein", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Godin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Elfman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no secrets that time does not reveal.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Racine", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Schmidt", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.", "AUTHOR": "Jack London", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "And know that I am with you always yes, to the end of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Barry", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!", "AUTHOR": "Selena Gomez", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "time" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.", "AUTHOR": "Cesare Pavese", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Laurel Clark", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "He travels the fastest who travels alone.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise traveler never despises his own country.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Benchley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The traveler was active he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.", "AUTHOR": "George Edward Moore", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.", "AUTHOR": "Aristophanes", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.", "AUTHOR": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Beard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Collins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.", "AUTHOR": "Italo Calvino", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.", "AUTHOR": "Truman Capote", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.", "AUTHOR": "James Cameron", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.", "AUTHOR": "George Ade", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.", "AUTHOR": "Wallis Simpson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse de Lamartine", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Palin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Liberty Hyde Bailey", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Electra", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You get educated by traveling.", "AUTHOR": "Solange Knowles", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Tipton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Roberts", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.", "AUTHOR": "William Bartram", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.", "AUTHOR": "Brandi Chastain", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travelling expands the mind rarely.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Christian Andersen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.", "AUTHOR": "Fanny Burney", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.", "AUTHOR": "Al Boliska", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A journey by Sea and Land, Five Hundred Miles, is not undertaken without money.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Hallam", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.", "AUTHOR": "Ivanka Trump", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Snowdon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Palin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Clark", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!", "AUTHOR": "David Blunkett", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Ozick", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Floyd", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.", "AUTHOR": "Jan Morris", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We are what our thoughts have made us so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live they travel far.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Brooks", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel teaches toleration.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Yan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Britney Spears", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.", "AUTHOR": "Hilaire Belloc", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.", "AUTHOR": "Hypatia", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to Heaven is ascending we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.", "AUTHOR": "Diane von Furstenberg", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to see friends more and travel more.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "An English man does not travel to see English men.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Laliberte", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin F. Wade", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have created a family. I work with the people I love, I travel with them, I make films with them, and I'm in an office with them. So in a weird way - I know I haven't birthed a child - I feel that I'm a part of creating a family. It's a tribe. I love that word.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kuralt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen?", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.", "AUTHOR": "Rosalia de Castro", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Nemerov", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.", "AUTHOR": "Shaun White", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.", "AUTHOR": "Kevyn Aucoin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Garrison", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We must travel in the direction of our fear.", "AUTHOR": "John Berryman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Watson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Ricci", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.", "AUTHOR": "Aristophanes", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Young", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.", "AUTHOR": "David Attenborough", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Statham", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.", "AUTHOR": "David Rockefeller", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, I'm terrible at travel.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was born to travel and write verse.", "AUTHOR": "Theophile Gautier", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Green", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.", "AUTHOR": "Morley Safer", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.", "AUTHOR": "John Glenn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Bikel", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I get cold - really cold - when I travel.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Murdoch", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Williams", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all it's a great way to travel!", "AUTHOR": "Marc Jacobs", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Horton Cooley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "This evening I wish to suggest that we Christians should accompany people on their pilgrimages. Specifically we should travel with people as they search for the good, the true and the beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Radcliffe", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Laurie", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "In Heaven, I believe my dad is somewhere doing something nice. I feel I've been too lucky to travel this far without somebody guiding me.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I always want to give my best and do the best I can. I know when I have sung my best and when I haven't. There can be stresses and hassles with time travel and press attention. I just have to adapt and find a way of dealing with it.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Cotillard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Collins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Maynard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To travel is to take a journey into yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Kaye", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Carey", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Annette Funicello", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel, of course, narrows the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Smith", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot travel within and stand still without.", "AUTHOR": "James Lane Allen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Moore", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Monaghan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Theroux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Saramago", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Smith", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Robeson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not daunted by the travel. People say, 'It's so far to Australia,' and I say, 'You get on the plane, you eat well, you sleep, you wake up - and you're there.'", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Rush", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Michelle Gellar", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hood", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.", "AUTHOR": "Cynthia Nixon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.", "AUTHOR": "Linda McCartney", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Weil", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Madonna Ciccone", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Murray", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.", "AUTHOR": "Adriana Trigiani", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I'm very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "These days I travel so much it's hard to get into a routine. When I'm on the road, I tend to use hotel gyms. When I'm home in L.A., I like to hike and hit the surf. All in all, I try to keep a balanced diet and exercise routine, which has stood me in good stead to date.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis Stone", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Kasdan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Stevens", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Christa McAuliffe", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.", "AUTHOR": "John Legend", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Waits", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Glennie", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Hillenbrand", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Two great talkers will not travel far together.", "AUTHOR": "George Borrow", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Vergara", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift' they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains' they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Sayle", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Eclair", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Bradshaw", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As long as I can communicate, I'm not so lonely. If I cannot travel, or do art, or have company, if they take away all my belongings, it doesn't matter at all.", "AUTHOR": "Ai Weiwei", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate to travel with stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Manolo Blahnik", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.", "AUTHOR": "David Bohm", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Lafleur", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.", "AUTHOR": "Jeffrey Archer", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Each and every one of the security measures we implement serves an important goal: providing safe and efficient air travel for the millions of people who rely on our aviation system every day.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Ace Frehley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.", "AUTHOR": "Shay Mitchell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel around and hear from so many kids. Their parents say they were always very picky but they watch the show and they want to try stuff. The show is entertainment, but I think it has done so much for the public perception of what food can be.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Colicchio", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Lipinski", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.", "AUTHOR": "Brandon Boyd", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Maillart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.", "AUTHOR": "Zach Braff", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Simmons", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.", "AUTHOR": "Jo Nesbo", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hooper", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.", "AUTHOR": "John Berger", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Grahame", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Chapin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember telling my creative writing teacher that you never want to have a journal, because if you lose it, then someone's going to know all your secrets. And then she stopped using a journal, but I always write everything down... Anytime I travel, I try and fill up notepads.", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hedlund", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?", "AUTHOR": "Frederic Bastiat", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Bell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My ideal travel companions are my family.", "AUTHOR": "Pharrell Williams", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Levon Helm", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.", "AUTHOR": "Emilio Estevez", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series.", "AUTHOR": "R. L. Stine", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Loeb", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Eudora Welty", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Harrison", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to travel by myself.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Rae Jepsen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Caine", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Jerzy Kosinski", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have several dogs and several cats who aren't really mine. In fact, they think that I am theirs. I'd like to have some goats and chickens, but I travel around too much.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Stoltz", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Bird", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very excited to accept the role of Honorary Patron with Hope Air because of the national scope of the organization and the very real impact they have on Canadians who need to travel to healthcare.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Mercer", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Chaim Potok", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun cash travel.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Porter", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Madison", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.", "AUTHOR": "Ingrid Newkirk", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Russell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Isaak", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Stevens", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nye", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Sakic", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Fraser", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas D. Kristof", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin J. Anderson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Mitchell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.", "AUTHOR": "Ryszard Kapuscinski", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Daley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.", "AUTHOR": "Yuri Milner", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Wright Penn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.", "AUTHOR": "Jennie Garth", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.", "AUTHOR": "David Selby", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Baumgartner", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ryun", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Wozniacki", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't travel without Sudoku.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.", "AUTHOR": "Duane G. Carey", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Lewis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Pratt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Cassel", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Jacobsen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Lendl", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes skip meals when I travel.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Smart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Greenberg", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Jontel Pimentel", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.", "AUTHOR": "Graeme Le Saux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel all the time, and I have two small children.", "AUTHOR": "Hope Davis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.", "AUTHOR": "Gijs de Vries", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Cavallari", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Redzepi", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.", "AUTHOR": "John Hutton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kreutzmann", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Michael K. Simpson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to travel and connect.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Powers", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.", "AUTHOR": "James Spader", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Newson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how you travel, it's still you going.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goldblum", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goldblum", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.", "AUTHOR": "Armand Assante", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!", "AUTHOR": "Scott Bakula", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Moore", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.", "AUTHOR": "Dhani Harrison", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Weiner", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.", "AUTHOR": "Olga Korbut", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Soderbergh", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We're constantly buying airplane tickets we travel on the Concorde.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.", "AUTHOR": "John Dykstra", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.", "AUTHOR": "David Deutsch", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Lucas", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Corddry", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriela Sabatini", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Richie", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Vinton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy McMorris", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Vance", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job it would let me go around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Laliberte", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure, I could give advice I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Morris", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Beckham", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Bayley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel teaches as much as books.", "AUTHOR": "Youssou N'Dour", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.", "AUTHOR": "Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.", "AUTHOR": "Ibrahim Rugova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!", "AUTHOR": "James McAvoy", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Gulbis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Frame", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.", "AUTHOR": "John Galliano", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not have any pets. We travel too much.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.", "AUTHOR": "Anatoli Boukreev", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.", "AUTHOR": "Cillian Murphy", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a travel enthusiast.", "AUTHOR": "Iggy Pop", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Manuel Barroso", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to travel a lot for work.", "AUTHOR": "James Purefoy", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Bishop", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Sullivan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Costello", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.", "AUTHOR": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Cochran", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.", "AUTHOR": "Meg White", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.", "AUTHOR": "Dianna Agron", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you travel, the better you get at it. It sounds silly, but with experience you learn how to pack the right way. I remember one of my first trips abroad, travelling around Europe by rail, fresh out of high school. I brought all these books with me and a paint set. I really had too much stuff, so I've learnt to be more economical.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Robuchon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Perry", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and making tons of money. It's a hard life. It's a lot of travel. It's a lot of weird hours.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Moneymaker", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia Jagger", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.", "AUTHOR": "David Cone", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to travel. I'm a curious person.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Swank", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.", "AUTHOR": "John Pomfret", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, the first 'Back to the Future' is kind of a perfect script, I think, in terms of handling time travel the best. It depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.", "AUTHOR": "Rian Johnson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Rian Johnson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Hersh", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Koch", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Kelly", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.", "AUTHOR": "Lita Ford", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Tucker", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel?", "AUTHOR": "Deion Sanders", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Margulis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.", "AUTHOR": "John Olver", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Newman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.", "AUTHOR": "Don Shula", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.", "AUTHOR": "Ben E. King", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.", "AUTHOR": "George Eads", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Shum, Jr.", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Fieri", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Evans", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.", "AUTHOR": "Paul D. Boyer", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is growing, and there are more good young players, but you don't see them going abroad. It's so expensive to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Retief Goosen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.", "AUTHOR": "Edwidge Danticat", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.", "AUTHOR": "Teddy Thompson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Karrie Webb", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.", "AUTHOR": "Gyorgy Ligeti", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Larsen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.", "AUTHOR": "Magnus Carlsen", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dean Foster", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Burrell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Sinatra", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.", "AUTHOR": "Arne Duncan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.", "AUTHOR": "James Harden", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dean Anderson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.", "AUTHOR": "Jung Chang", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.", "AUTHOR": "Brie Larson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson A. Miles", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.", "AUTHOR": "Max Irons", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Taymor", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Comaneci", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people don't want to be second to anyone. Everyone wants to be an overnight star. Look how many years I had to wait, how many roads I had to travel, how many songs I had to sing. And now I'm just beginning, never ending.", "AUTHOR": "Compay Segundo", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Rania of Jordan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Chapin Carpenter", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Albarn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Ludwig", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Ludwig", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Foley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Domestic travel and tourism-related spending has reached $1 trillion a year.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Foley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Said", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.", "AUTHOR": "Barry McGuire", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Spinrad", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Freema Agyeman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Kina Grannis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Chase", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.", "AUTHOR": "Gerard Arpey", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.", "AUTHOR": "Wale", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to travel, but hate to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Hernando Cortez", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Juliet Stevenson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Cornwell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.", "AUTHOR": "Josie Maran", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Krysten Ritter", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Hawkins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Allin Cornell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.", "AUTHOR": "Robert D. Kaplan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.", "AUTHOR": "Martin McGuinness", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.", "AUTHOR": "Diane von Furstenberg", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.", "AUTHOR": "Daryl Hall", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.", "AUTHOR": "Boomer Esiason", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.", "AUTHOR": "Dierks Bentley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Haggis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Emerson Fittipaldi", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Richards", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Collette", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.", "AUTHOR": "Walton Goggins", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.", "AUTHOR": "Vijay Mallya", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.", "AUTHOR": "Will Steger", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Ellen Mark", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lewis Perl", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.", "AUTHOR": "Montel Williams", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Garneau", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I never travel without my sketch book.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Wright", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Welling", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Dewan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.", "AUTHOR": "Romario", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Brenner", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Schneier", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.", "AUTHOR": "Claudio Reyna", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to think that if it hadn't gone as well as it has, if I wasn't able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldn't likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Cockburn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.", "AUTHOR": "Clifton Paul Fadiman", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Ek", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Singing is my passion and I always wanted to travel the country.", "AUTHOR": "Thia Megia", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.", "AUTHOR": "Matt Lucas", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Moranis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel definitely affects me as a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Doerr", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Velasquez", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved the travel but I didn't love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating!", "AUTHOR": "Brooklyn Decker", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Dale", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It was good to travel to the other side of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Braugher", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Thompson Seton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Khodorkovsky", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.", "AUTHOR": "David Deutsch", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.", "AUTHOR": "Helle Thorning-Schmidt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.", "AUTHOR": "Don McLean", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Hazlewood", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.", "AUTHOR": "Keren Ann", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.", "AUTHOR": "AnnaLynne McCord", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Lobo", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Hughes", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.", "AUTHOR": "RJ Mitte", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Lombardo", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to be aware of all aspects: To check how they travel, how they eat, the competition conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Juantorena", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Trevor Phillips", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Swetchine", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.", "AUTHOR": "Bar Refaeli", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolf Nureyev", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Brydon", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad.", "AUTHOR": "Coolio", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Greatbatch", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Lucas", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hughes", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.", "AUTHOR": "Uri Geller", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Natalia Makarova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Kreuk", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.", "AUTHOR": "Soulja Boy", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.", "AUTHOR": "Trishelle Cannatella", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Facinelli", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Lesley Gore", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like this - because I travel so much, I crave certain foods or certain things, like from certain places that I've been.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Meraz", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Mariano", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.", "AUTHOR": "Charles C. Mann", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Hannah", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Gray", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Campbell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.", "AUTHOR": "Robyn Davidson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.", "AUTHOR": "Robyn Davidson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Coughlin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.", "AUTHOR": "Kingman Brewster, Jr.", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.", "AUTHOR": "Linda Blair", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.", "AUTHOR": "Ethan Embry", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Carne", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.", "AUTHOR": "Vita Sackville-West", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Alexi Giannoulias", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.", "AUTHOR": "Lake Bell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Irving", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Behr", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Irvine", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Hailey", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Cochran", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Speke", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.", "AUTHOR": "Majel Barrett", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.", "AUTHOR": "Saskia de Brauw", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.", "AUTHOR": "Saskia de Brauw", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Meynell", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Scruggs", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Count Basie", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Conti", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Leach", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.", "AUTHOR": "Peter James", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Leach", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Modeling has given me the opportunity to travel outside of Brazil and see the world. I have been meeting many interesting and talented people along the way.", "AUTHOR": "Izabel Goulart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.", "AUTHOR": "Tatjana Patitz", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up skateboarding it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much professional skateboarders made. I just knew that if I became a professional skateboarder, I would achieve a lot and get to travel and do these great things.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Lee", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Cahill", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Cahill", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Cahill", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.", "AUTHOR": "Mink Stole", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Oliver", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Oliver", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Scott", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.", "AUTHOR": "Harrison Salisbury", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Pico Iyer", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Baker", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Since traveling is such a big part of my life when I am working, I like to vacation relatively close to home. Florida is a great place for me to go and relax. It's so close, which is perfect because it's the minimal travel time.", "AUTHOR": "Hilary Rhoda", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Kostova", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Flake", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Ashton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Keoghan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel a lot I hate having my life disrupted by routine.", "AUTHOR": "Caskie Stinnett", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Daines", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.", "AUTHOR": "Booboo Stewart", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Clark", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wesley", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.", "AUTHOR": "Peta Wilson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.", "AUTHOR": "James Houston", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.", "AUTHOR": "John McDonald", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Cockburn", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I really enjoy travel, I enjoy the U.K., I enjoy Scotland, Glasgow.", "AUTHOR": "George Wendt", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.", "AUTHOR": "B. J. Novak", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jacqueline Winspear", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Prokhorov", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.", "AUTHOR": "Donny Robinson", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Force Crater", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Force Crater", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Press", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.", "AUTHOR": "John Raleigh Mott", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "James Jeans", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua A. Norton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.", "AUTHOR": "Kiran Ahluwalia", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Beard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Rutan", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Seydoux", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Runcie", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Drew", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Drew", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Buck", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.", "AUTHOR": "Gareth Gates", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.", "AUTHOR": "John Hope Franklin", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Arnold", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Addy", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.", "AUTHOR": "Yvon Chouinard", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Troughton", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Glass", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hayes", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Paltrow", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Davis", "GENRE": "travel" }, { "QUOTE": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Watts", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Eubie Blake", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Smith", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.", "AUTHOR": "Gisele Bundchen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.", "AUTHOR": "Allyson Felix", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.", "AUTHOR": "Harold MacMillan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.", "AUTHOR": "Grantland Rice", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't trust anyone over 30.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Boone", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Goldberg", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry L. Stimson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Renault", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Black", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Dove", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust anybody with power.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Men trust their ears less than their eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.", "AUTHOR": "Roy Acuff", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goldblum", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Baden-Powell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust not too much to appearances.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey S. Firestone", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to trust what I do and then do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ednita Nazario", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in God - she will provide.", "AUTHOR": "Emmeline Pankhurst", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.", "AUTHOR": "Hesiod", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never trusted good-looking boys.", "AUTHOR": "Frances McDormand", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.", "AUTHOR": "David Wilkerson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust sheep.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Stiles", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Duhamel", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?", "AUTHOR": "Sydney Madwed", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Who would not rather trust and be deceived?", "AUTHOR": "Eliza Cook", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust everybody, but cut the cards.", "AUTHOR": "Finley Peter Dunne", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is a great force multiplier.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Ridge", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your ability!", "AUTHOR": "Itzhak Perlman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.", "AUTHOR": "Wilma Mankiller", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The best proof of love is trust.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust, but verify.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Crane", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'public' scares me, but people I trust.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.", "AUTHOR": "Corrie Ten Boom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.", "AUTHOR": "Tad Williams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God trust also in me.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Sigourney Weaver", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Mugabe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.", "AUTHOR": "D. Elton Trueblood", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Brown", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.", "AUTHOR": "Aaron Carter", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust no one, not even myself.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stalin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.", "AUTHOR": "Duane Michals", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Ashe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Secretan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Faith is a state of openness or trust.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Anderson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Kidman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.", "AUTHOR": "Democritus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.", "AUTHOR": "Maggie Gyllenhaal", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.", "AUTHOR": "Marian Wright Edelman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Abdul", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Apple", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.", "AUTHOR": "William E. Gladstone", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Cromwell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.", "AUTHOR": "Agatha Christie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Connolly", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Adams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust one who has tried.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.", "AUTHOR": "Claire McCaskill", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.", "AUTHOR": "Geronimo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.", "AUTHOR": "Athenaeus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.", "AUTHOR": "James Herriot", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is built with consistency.", "AUTHOR": "Lincoln Chafee", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Claude", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Tubman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Geldof", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you can question your instinct you should always trust it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust what this life has given me.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Put your trust in God but be sure to keep your powder dry.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Cromwell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it.", "AUTHOR": "David Byrne", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Loggins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I always have issues with trust.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it!", "AUTHOR": "Kate Winslet", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Clay", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Nader", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is the first step to love.", "AUTHOR": "Munshi Premchand", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'", "AUTHOR": "John Lasseter", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.", "AUTHOR": "Henry L. Stimson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Adams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor he betrays the interest of his country.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.", "AUTHOR": "Joss Whedon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?", "AUTHOR": "Garrett Hardin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.", "AUTHOR": "Isabelle Adjani", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Interior design is a business of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust a lot of journalists.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Lin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Norton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When trust improves, the mood improves.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Flores", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Chan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.", "AUTHOR": "Kina Grannis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Krauthammer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust the people.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very wary of trust, you see.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.", "AUTHOR": "Warren G. Bennis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.", "AUTHOR": "Shelley Long", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Freire", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Koslow", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It is important not to trust people too much.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Prachett", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Brust", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.", "AUTHOR": "Fergie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.", "AUTHOR": "George Whitefield", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.", "AUTHOR": "Queen Elizabeth II", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.", "AUTHOR": "J. C. Watts", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.", "AUTHOR": "Bethenny Frankel", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust myself. You need that to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.", "AUTHOR": "Andie MacDowell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Mailer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Conrad", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.", "AUTHOR": "James Taylor", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Boyle", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The cyberspace earnings I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!", "AUTHOR": "Liz Phair", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is going to be a safe place to work, but I really don't think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.", "AUTHOR": "Eartha Kitt", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Ghosn", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Flores", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have three people in your life that you can trust, you can consider yourself the luckiest person in the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Selena Gomez", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Greenspan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Hagler", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Walker", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Hollande", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.", "AUTHOR": "Kyle Chandler", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your gut.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Blakely", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Slovo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Kinnear", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Taylor", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.", "AUTHOR": "G. I. Gurdjieff", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.", "AUTHOR": "Leona Lewis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Kushner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Armstrong", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Gallo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah McLachlan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.", "AUTHOR": "R. Kelly", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Collins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust in yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Black", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.", "AUTHOR": "Lea Michele", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.", "AUTHOR": "John Ciardi", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust actors.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never ask boys' opinions on clothes, ever. I really think, unless you think the guy has style, don't ask. So I only ask my girl friends. I don't trust guys' opinions on style!", "AUTHOR": "Emma Roberts", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.", "AUTHOR": "Kirk Cameron", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Gibb", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Paradis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'", "AUTHOR": "Paul Feig", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Kellan Lutz", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Albini", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Knoxville", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.", "AUTHOR": "Solon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Penrose", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have such trust complexes. I'm close to, like, two people.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Momsen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Stephen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Pearce", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Dee", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Weiland", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.", "AUTHOR": "Desmond Morris", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Russo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Zane", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Child", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.", "AUTHOR": "Raymond Holliwell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Parcells", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Justice", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Lynde", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lem", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Cantor", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Williams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right.", "AUTHOR": "Marcy Kaptur", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Caro", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.", "AUTHOR": "Diana Ross", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, if I were gay I'd be getting more action than I'm getting now.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Seacrest", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.", "AUTHOR": "Melissa Bean", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Thompson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Kaspar Lavater", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Morton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.", "AUTHOR": "Yo-Yo Ma", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's true that blondes have more fun... Trust me, it is not true!", "AUTHOR": "Mila Kunis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Sherilyn Fenn", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust cannot be commanded and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Price", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Pietersen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Pietersen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes years for me to trust I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Pfeiffer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Isaacson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.", "AUTHOR": "Ewan McGregor", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.", "AUTHOR": "Christiane Amanpour", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.", "AUTHOR": "John McCarthy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Pence", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.", "AUTHOR": "Arabella Weir", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Haden Church", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ondaatje", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust very many people.", "AUTHOR": "George Best", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Buckingham", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Woodworth", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Mochrie", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Fox", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The way I look at it, everything is a trade. You acquire some money, so then you've got no financial burdens, but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone, but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?", "AUTHOR": "Matt LeBlanc", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Bernie Sanders", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.", "AUTHOR": "Julianne Hough", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Davis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.", "AUTHOR": "John Key", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.", "AUTHOR": "Itzhak Perlman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.", "AUTHOR": "Bashar al-Assad", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.", "AUTHOR": "William John Wills", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Grimke", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Moore", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?", "AUTHOR": "Anna Chlumsky", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.", "AUTHOR": "David Ortiz", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.", "AUTHOR": "Armstrong Williams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCarthy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.", "AUTHOR": "Mariel Hemingway", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'", "AUTHOR": "Sean Parker", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hoppus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.", "AUTHOR": "Emmitt Smith", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.", "AUTHOR": "John Churton Collins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Van Buren", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.", "AUTHOR": "Bill O'Reilly", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes people a while to trust you.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Malone", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis-Bextor", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.", "AUTHOR": "E. L. Doctorow", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Thirlby", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.", "AUTHOR": "Seamus Heaney", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of good government is trust.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Sebelius", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.", "AUTHOR": "John Stossel", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Arad", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Offerman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.", "AUTHOR": "Mitchell Reiss", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.", "AUTHOR": "Atom Egoyan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Brownstein", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Gove", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.", "AUTHOR": "Yann Martel", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Scherzinger", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't just trust to luck you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Parsons", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.", "AUTHOR": "J. William Fulbright", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.", "AUTHOR": "Bai Ling", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Hahn", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Grace", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.", "AUTHOR": "James Carville", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality.", "AUTHOR": "Payne Stewart", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.", "AUTHOR": "Donella Meadows", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children.", "AUTHOR": "Toby Jones", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Hanna", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Daniels", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Keaton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Mandelbaum", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!", "AUTHOR": "Paul Prudhomme", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.", "AUTHOR": "Dalton Trumbo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Phillips", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Bow", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.", "AUTHOR": "Gerrit Smith", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver North", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust the tale, not the teller.", "AUTHOR": "David Knopfler", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Myung-bak", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick J. Kennedy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goldblum", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Irons", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Knuth", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'", "AUTHOR": "Steve Ballmer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.", "AUTHOR": "Namie Amuro", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Swift", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.", "AUTHOR": "Dominic Cooper", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Cuban", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.", "AUTHOR": "Gregory Corso", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.", "AUTHOR": "James D. Watson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Disarmament requires trust.", "AUTHOR": "Gustav Heinemann", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Couric", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I can count on one hand how many people I trust.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Bean Cobain", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Ginn", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The power to investigate is a great public trust.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Celler", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.", "AUTHOR": "George Tenet", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Steadman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.", "AUTHOR": "F. Murray Abraham", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Fonda", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Morris", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.", "AUTHOR": "Bubba Watson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.", "AUTHOR": "William Gurnall", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Graham", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I am lucky to have advisers whom I trust.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.", "AUTHOR": "Naveen Jain", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Becker", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Campbell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Schroder", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.", "AUTHOR": "Nolan Ryan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan Singer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Williams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan Williams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.", "AUTHOR": "James Chanos", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Bush", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "This relationship is going to be built on trust.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Maples", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.", "AUTHOR": "George Carey", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust the Bee Gee's because there's no way they could always be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Crosby", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas Wood", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.", "AUTHOR": "Connie Sellecca", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Sevareid", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.", "AUTHOR": "Park Geun-hye", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Keeler", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Housman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Kain", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust my instincts.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Zane", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Brolin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Laurent", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.", "AUTHOR": "Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.", "AUTHOR": "Max Baucus", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Dale Owen", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Donner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Donner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust no one totally.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Sheffield", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Sheffield", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Yelchin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.", "AUTHOR": "John Dingell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Katie Holmes", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.", "AUTHOR": "Zhang Ziyi", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.", "AUTHOR": "Jacob Lew", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.", "AUTHOR": "William Devane", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tilson Thomas", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.", "AUTHOR": "William P. Leahy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless.", "AUTHOR": "Jef I. Richards", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.", "AUTHOR": "William Odom", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Richard E. Grant", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Arpaio", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Shannon Elizabeth", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.", "AUTHOR": "John Krasinski", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Straub", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Rickitt", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.", "AUTHOR": "Illeana Douglas", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca De Mornay", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wortley Montagu", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.", "AUTHOR": "Benny Green", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Albini", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Levin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Chopin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Campbell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Durkin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Grafton", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Coke", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Bryan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse James Garrett", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.", "AUTHOR": "Demian Bichir", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.", "AUTHOR": "Victoria Woodhull", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.", "AUTHOR": "Hector Elizondo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "Li Peng", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Maude", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.", "AUTHOR": "Russel Honore", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.", "AUTHOR": "Nile Rodgers", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Salazar", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Muren", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Connelly", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Connelly", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.", "AUTHOR": "Benedict Cumberbatch", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Adams", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Kristol", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.", "AUTHOR": "Jada Pinkett Smith", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.", "AUTHOR": "Howie Carr", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He's in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he's Steve Jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Howie Carr", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Centre is very important to me it's about trust - about truth.", "AUTHOR": "David Ginola", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.", "AUTHOR": "Leelee Sobieski", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Foley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust the internet.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolette Sheridan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you're dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.", "AUTHOR": "Reid Hoffman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.", "AUTHOR": "William Gilbert", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gilbert", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Walker", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Hawkins", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.", "AUTHOR": "Hosni Mubarak", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Spellings", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Augusta Ward", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all about the director for me we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Juno Temple", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.", "AUTHOR": "Heather Wilson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Leigh", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Frazier", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Fielding", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The American people want to have trust in their leaders.", "AUTHOR": "David Plouffe", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I know it sounds new age-y, but what I've truly come up with is that you really need to trust that you're on your own path, as long as you stay true to it and you show up, which is 99% of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Lynch", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Quaid", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.", "AUTHOR": "David Horowitz", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.", "AUTHOR": "Claudia Christian", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Cheryl Cole", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.", "AUTHOR": "Max Greenfield", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.", "AUTHOR": "Ali Smith", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Hamilton Finlay", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Cepeda", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can never trust what you read.", "AUTHOR": "William Goldman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Gardner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Dewan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Dewan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Kearns Goodwin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Winchester", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Olbermann", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Benedict", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans they have to be self-reliant.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Cook", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Trachtenberg", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood!", "AUTHOR": "Atticus Shaffer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Sinek", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Taft", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.", "AUTHOR": "JoJo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Skaggs", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Quayle", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As a Christian, I think it's really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.", "AUTHOR": "Leven Rambin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.", "AUTHOR": "Shawn Levy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Braeden", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Fujimori", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James Sumner Maine", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Blagojevich", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.", "AUTHOR": "Marla Gibbs", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Lawrence", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.", "AUTHOR": "Balthazar Getty", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "John Anderson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.", "AUTHOR": "Linwood Barclay", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Sessions", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.", "AUTHOR": "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.", "AUTHOR": "W. G. Sebald", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can trust Charlie Crist.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Crist", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public, and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Tauzin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.", "AUTHOR": "Sue Monk Kidd", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.", "AUTHOR": "Kristi Noem", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.", "AUTHOR": "Nassau William Senior", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.", "AUTHOR": "Susannah McCorkle", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.", "AUTHOR": "Minka Kelly", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Squyres", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.", "AUTHOR": "Wolf Blitzer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Simmons", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Fleeshman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Stanley Robinson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust my wife more than I trust myself.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Paul", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Rhodes", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Hale", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.", "AUTHOR": "Lori Greiner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.", "AUTHOR": "Boris Trajkovski", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Reaser", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.", "AUTHOR": "Duff Goldman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Preston Manning", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Sher Valenzuela", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Gadsden", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.", "AUTHOR": "Elaine Paige", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.", "AUTHOR": "Lyle Lovett", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.", "AUTHOR": "Haley Barbour", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Barenboim", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Moore", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Hayes", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it.", "AUTHOR": "Erskine Bowles", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.", "AUTHOR": "Thad Cochran", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.", "AUTHOR": "Stephanie Mills", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Moennig", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.", "AUTHOR": "Edna O'Brien", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.", "AUTHOR": "John H. Speke", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Bowman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'", "AUTHOR": "Mike Farrell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.", "AUTHOR": "Claude M. Bristol", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Brady", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?", "AUTHOR": "Kim Deal", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.", "AUTHOR": "Ava Gardner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Kohl", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Boisselier", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.", "AUTHOR": "David James Elliott", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.", "AUTHOR": "Ato Boldon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Kretschmann", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Murphy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.", "AUTHOR": "Travis Tritt", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.", "AUTHOR": "Art Spiegelman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Gelsey Kirkland", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Cain", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Stratten", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrice Dalle", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.", "AUTHOR": "F. L. Lucas", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Raven", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Boyd", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Ito", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?", "AUTHOR": "David Hunt", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Cherry", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.", "AUTHOR": "Norm Coleman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksa Palladino", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.", "AUTHOR": "Heather O'Rourke", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.", "AUTHOR": "Fred L. Turner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.", "AUTHOR": "Yingluck Shinawatra", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Lindsay-Hogg", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Mottola", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth J. Simmons", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't trust anyone over thirty.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Rubin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.", "AUTHOR": "Lynn Westmoreland", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ueberroth", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Jeffords", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The hardest thing to do is to trust people.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight Howard", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.", "AUTHOR": "Banksy", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.", "AUTHOR": "Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Todd Jealous", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.", "AUTHOR": "Adnan Pachachi", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Draghi", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.", "AUTHOR": "Fatima Siad", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Irving R. Kaufman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Campbell-Bannerman", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Positioning the brand and regaining trust are all smart things for us to do and those are the litmus tests for any decisions we make.", "AUTHOR": "John McKinley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.", "AUTHOR": "George B. McClellan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.", "AUTHOR": "William Halsey", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to be in a relationship that I don't fully trust.", "AUTHOR": "Jake Pavelka", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Simpson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.", "AUTHOR": "Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Glaser", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.", "AUTHOR": "Louise Woodward", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to trust your body to take care of you.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Langer", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar N. C. de Vaca", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph J. Ellis", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.", "AUTHOR": "Josefa Iloilo", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.", "AUTHOR": "Cissy Houston", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Spector", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.", "AUTHOR": "Alberto Moravia", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Nighthorse Campbell", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.", "AUTHOR": "John Witherspoon", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Grassley", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Edgar", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Townsend", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Etheridge", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Tomlinson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "All political power is a trust.", "AUTHOR": "Charles James Fox", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Jenner", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?", "AUTHOR": "John Trumbull", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never, not once, violated my public trust.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Mollohan", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Burghoff", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.", "AUTHOR": "Cardinal De Retz", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Conaway", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Colson", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen Butler", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really trust a sane person.", "AUTHOR": "Lyle Alzado", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dibdin", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.", "AUTHOR": "Kumar Mangalam Birla", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Maddow", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust.", "AUTHOR": "Shigenori Maruyama", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Green", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.", "AUTHOR": "Aldrich Ames", "GENRE": "trust" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth not going all the way, and not starting.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is rarely pure and never simple.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a truth is often a great lie.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the children the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Marley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.", "AUTHOR": "Swami Vivekananda", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of truth is said in jest.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The words of truth are always paradoxical.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.", "AUTHOR": "Galileo Galilei", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Light is the symbol of truth.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.", "AUTHOR": "Hunter S. Thompson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace if possible, truth at all costs.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.", "AUTHOR": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.", "AUTHOR": "Whitney Houston", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Facts are many, but the truth is one.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Henry", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is more important than the facts.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Shel Silverstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Presley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Descartes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I say that justice is truth in action.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Adversity is the first path to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.", "AUTHOR": "Prince William", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Miller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Biko", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Justin Timberlake", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Musto", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.", "AUTHOR": "Antisthenes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The first reaction to truth is hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Rostand", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel Angel Ruiz", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When in doubt tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth never damages a cause that is just.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.", "AUTHOR": "William Shenstone", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We have art in order not to die of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of the superior man is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Robbins", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Live truth instead of professing it.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie told often enough becomes the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Lenin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is found only in truth.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Darin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Allan Poe", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.", "AUTHOR": "Shunryu Suzuki", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Anais Nin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Dangerfield", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.", "AUTHOR": "Ismail Haniyeh", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no truth anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Yogi Berra", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Hans Eysenck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Gates", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Scott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Newton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Jesus Christ", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.", "AUTHOR": "M. Russell Ballard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.", "AUTHOR": "Pietro Aretino", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Peguy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm Muggeridge", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is what works.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Neruda", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Chaplin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Greenleaf Whittier", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Time discovers truth.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.", "AUTHOR": "Dietrich Bonhoeffer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.", "AUTHOR": "Soren Kierkegaard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.", "AUTHOR": "J. Edgar Hoover", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction is the truth inside the lie.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Half a truth is better than no politics.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is the mother of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who's your real friend? It's the person who tells you the truth. That's who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Xun Zi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.", "AUTHOR": "William F. Buckley, Jr.", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not require many words to speak the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.", "AUTHOR": "Cal Thomas", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Brault", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is truth in action.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A writer's job is to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Rooney", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Carroll", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.", "AUTHOR": "George Canning", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is but an image of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the truth, but tell it slant.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Dickinson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Kristofferson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jules Verne", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.", "AUTHOR": "Nikolai Berdyaev", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abelard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.", "AUTHOR": "George Harrison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The color of truth is gray.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.", "AUTHOR": "Amber Frey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All truth is not to be told at all times.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abelard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is powerful and it prevails.", "AUTHOR": "Sojourner Truth", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no truth. There is only perception.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Barnes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.", "AUTHOR": "T. E. Lawrence", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.", "AUTHOR": "Niels Bohr", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Bernstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We are free to yield to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.", "AUTHOR": "Hypatia", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.", "AUTHOR": "Busta Rhymes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.", "AUTHOR": "Flannery O'Connor", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Ken Kesey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Borge", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The words of truth are simple.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Tambo", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much truth is uncouth.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The best mind-altering drug is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.", "AUTHOR": "John Shelby Spong", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.", "AUTHOR": "George Saunders", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Giordano Bruno", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Patrick", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.", "AUTHOR": "John Bradshaw", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Walpole", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be distinguished from the rest to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'", "AUTHOR": "Pink", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Kerry", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Tosh", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Atwater", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Todd Lincoln", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.", "AUTHOR": "John Locke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mohsen Makhmalbaf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Justice is the truth in action.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Joubert", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Shinichi Suzuki", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.", "AUTHOR": "Drake", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Venus Williams", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Veiling truth in mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Virgil", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A new untruth is better than an old truth.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Pratchett", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You never find yourself until you face the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.", "AUTHOR": "Hypatia", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas a Kempis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Darrow", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.", "AUTHOR": "Horace Mann", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is on the side of the oppressed.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm X", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is a tendency.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.", "AUTHOR": "Mencius", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Cronkite", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Luc Godard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Maimonides", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Nestell Bovee", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.", "AUTHOR": "Jorge Luis Borges", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de la Bruyere", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stevens", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth comes out in wine.", "AUTHOR": "Pliny the Elder", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I can take any truth just don't lie to me.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Kafka", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?", "AUTHOR": "Dick Clark", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Lamont", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.", "AUTHOR": "Auguste Rodin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.", "AUTHOR": "Marie de France", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is in things, and not in words.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Silverman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The first casualty when war comes is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Hiram Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Yukio Mishima", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us but, with the help of God, we will prevail.", "AUTHOR": "Alija Izetbegovic", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Bentham", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.", "AUTHOR": "B. C. Forbes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Emile M. Cioran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.", "AUTHOR": "Bryant H. McGill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.", "AUTHOR": "Edmond de Goncourt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.", "AUTHOR": "Robert M. Pirsig", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Bataille", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Balfour", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Wole Soyinka", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Miller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.", "AUTHOR": "Robert J. Ringer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Corgan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Frid", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Neal Boortz", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Menzies", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth springs from argument amongst friends.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Wilder", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.", "AUTHOR": "Peace Pilgrim", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Hu Shih", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Baker Eddy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I always come from truth.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a lie who always speaks the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.", "AUTHOR": "David Mamet", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine L'Engle", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Claude Van Damme", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is lived, not taught.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.", "AUTHOR": "Sid Caesar", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.", "AUTHOR": "David Hume", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To tell the truth is revolutionary.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Gramsci", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Beck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Bacon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cargill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Mansfield", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Miller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Country music is three chords and the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Howard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth cannot be defeated.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Diderot", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Nelson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.", "AUTHOR": "Brittany Murphy", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent D'Onofrio", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Goldberg", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Badiou", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.", "AUTHOR": "Miriam Makeba", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Kahn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Landon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Il-sung", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.", "AUTHOR": "Camillo di Cavour", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!", "AUTHOR": "Swami Sivananda", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai Stevenson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.", "AUTHOR": "James Broughton", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Davis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Tertullian", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.", "AUTHOR": "June Jordan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Gellhorn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me get you to understand I don't bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I'm very honest and I always tell the truth. I'm not a liar, I'm not manipulative and I don't stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.", "AUTHOR": "NeNe Leakes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Krzyzewski", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Neugebauer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Evans", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?", "AUTHOR": "Teena Marie", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Martin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Starr", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is exact correspondence with reality.", "AUTHOR": "Paramahansa Yogananda", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.", "AUTHOR": "Josefina Vazquez Mota", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Ramos-Horta", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.", "AUTHOR": "Pindar", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that men are tired of liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.", "AUTHOR": "John Jay Chapman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "George Bancroft", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no original truth, only original error.", "AUTHOR": "Gaston Bachelard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Colbert", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Malraux", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas are, in truth, force.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.", "AUTHOR": "Adolf Loos", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.", "AUTHOR": "Vernon Howard", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.", "AUTHOR": "Ricky Martin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.", "AUTHOR": "A. Philip Randolph", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "This is my truth, tell me yours.", "AUTHOR": "Aneurin Bevan", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "William Bernbach", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Borne", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Flores", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Joan of Arc", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Myung Moon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Walpole", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.", "AUTHOR": "James Otis", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!", "AUTHOR": "Sonia Johnson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.", "AUTHOR": "William Lloyd Garrison", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.", "AUTHOR": "Robert De Niro", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Kneale", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Kenny", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.", "AUTHOR": "Cathy Rindner Tempelsman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.", "AUTHOR": "William Tyndale", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.", "AUTHOR": "David Petraeus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.", "AUTHOR": "Nate Silver", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Scott", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Cohen", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My longing for truth was a single prayer.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Stein", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.", "AUTHOR": "Bayard Rustin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.", "AUTHOR": "Abdolkarim Soroush", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kinsley", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Bernhardt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Exactitude is not truth.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Matisse", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Ritter", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Arndt", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver North", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Language is the house of the truth of Being.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Heidegger", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Marc", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Herbert", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.", "AUTHOR": "Regis Philbin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A gift of truth is the gift of love.", "AUTHOR": "David Icke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.", "AUTHOR": "Edward de Bono", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.", "AUTHOR": "Giordano Bruno", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Kaufman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.", "AUTHOR": "Stella Adler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.", "AUTHOR": "Tracey Emin", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Schlessinger", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Borne", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the truth and shame the devil.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.", "AUTHOR": "Xenophanes", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Linney", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.", "AUTHOR": "Ida Tarbell", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Aragon", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Rudd", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is life's most precious commodity.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Pierce", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.", "AUTHOR": "V. S. Naipaul", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth comes to us mediated by human love.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wynn", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.", "AUTHOR": "Horatio Nelson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.", "AUTHOR": "Maureen O'Hara", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Brooke Burke", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.", "AUTHOR": "Edna St. Vincent Millay", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Tippett", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Kavanagh", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Meyer", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.", "AUTHOR": "Channing Tatum", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.", "AUTHOR": "David Sedaris", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Moran", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare, 'I am here to save R&B.' I will have the people saying, 'Sir, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B.'", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Becket", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then life is dull without it.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Iqbal", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.", "AUTHOR": "Leslie Fiedler", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "You've got to demand the truth from yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy L. Sayers", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hope", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.", "AUTHOR": "Javier Bardem", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Simmons", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?", "AUTHOR": "Jeanne Moreau", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Fry", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Kane", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald R. Ford", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "truth" }, { "QUOTE": "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War does not determine who is right - only who is left.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never a good war, or a bad peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All war is deception.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we don't end war, war will end us.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the dead have seen the end of the war.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Fenelon", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "An unjust peace is better than a just war.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a defeat for humanity.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Woodworth", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.", "AUTHOR": "Pedro Calderon de la Barca", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War remains the decisive human failure.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Mann", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not yet begun to fight!", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Jones", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is hell.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?", "AUTHOR": "Joan Baez", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Sweat saves blood.", "AUTHOR": "Erwin Rommel", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War makes thieves and peace hangs them.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The first casualty when war comes is truth.", "AUTHOR": "Hiram Johnson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.", "AUTHOR": "Jeannette Rankin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jeane Kirkpatrick", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the unfolding of miscalculations.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Tuchman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert V. Prochnow", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Evans Hughes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War would end if the dead could return.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Baldwin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Thomas", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.", "AUTHOR": "Black Kettle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.", "AUTHOR": "Prince Andrew", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole Broyard", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Kerry", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.", "AUTHOR": "John Randolph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality is contraband in war.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.", "AUTHOR": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We make war that we may live in peace.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the dead have seen the end of war.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States never lost a war or won a conference.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To hold a pen is to be at war.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.", "AUTHOR": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We're not going to baby sit a civil war.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We are not at war against Islam.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All war is based on deception.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.", "AUTHOR": "Jodie Foster", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was drafted during the Korean War.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a contagion.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Buffett", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.", "AUTHOR": "Shel Silverstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move.", "AUTHOR": "Sun Tzu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Simon", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.", "AUTHOR": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Serious sport is war minus the shooting.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the business of barbarians.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A war between Europeans is a civil war.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.", "AUTHOR": "John Adams", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.", "AUTHOR": "William S. Burroughs", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war there is no prize for runner-up.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Wilson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.", "AUTHOR": "Fidel Castro", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.", "AUTHOR": "George Orwell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The sinews of war are infinite money.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.", "AUTHOR": "Meir Kahane", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Laws are silent in time of war.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is a combination of war and sport.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War settles nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The only defensible war is a war of defense.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The real war will never get in the books.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.", "AUTHOR": "Ross Perot", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In time of war the laws are silent.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This war is not about slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Anton Wilson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war there is no substitute for victory.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is never a solution it is an aggravation.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.", "AUTHOR": "Murray Rothbard", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Either war is obsolete, or men are.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All oppression creates a state of war.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexis de Tocqueville", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not only the living who are killed in war.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.", "AUTHOR": "Red Auerbach", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Trotsky", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To secure peace is to prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Abbey", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Elder", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Kissinger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.", "AUTHOR": "Smedley Butler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.", "AUTHOR": "Thucydides", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Paul Jones", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.", "AUTHOR": "Jefferson Davis", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.", "AUTHOR": "Julius Caesar", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Bashevis Singer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a profane thing.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas MacArthur", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Noah Webster", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.", "AUTHOR": "John Maynard Keynes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "People always make war when they say they love peace.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Vonnegut", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.", "AUTHOR": "Avril Lavigne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.", "AUTHOR": "George C. Marshall", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.", "AUTHOR": "Al McGuire", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.", "AUTHOR": "Barry McCaffrey", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is a blessing compared with national degradation.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.", "AUTHOR": "Otto von Bismarck", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.", "AUTHOR": "John Donne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What is more immoral than war?", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Lamb", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.", "AUTHOR": "H. G. Wells", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.", "AUTHOR": "John Stuart Mill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Tomlin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.", "AUTHOR": "Richard M. Nixon", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.", "AUTHOR": "J. Robert Oppenheimer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Johnson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the ultimate tool of politics.", "AUTHOR": "R. Buckminster Fuller", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.", "AUTHOR": "Noel Coward", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Pike", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.", "AUTHOR": "Yasser Arafat", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Badnarik", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.", "AUTHOR": "Umberto Eco", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am against all war.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Clemenceau", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Schwarzkopf", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is at its best barbarism.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.", "AUTHOR": "John T. Flynn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.", "AUTHOR": "Sophia Loren", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II was the last government program that really worked.", "AUTHOR": "George Will", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.", "AUTHOR": "Thor Heyerdahl", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Scorsese", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Law is always better than war.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.", "AUTHOR": "Ulysses S. Grant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.", "AUTHOR": "Sylvester Stallone", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Thurman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.", "AUTHOR": "Marjane Satrapi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?", "AUTHOR": "Imran Khan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hiddleston", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.", "AUTHOR": "William Burroughs", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.", "AUTHOR": "Marshall McLuhan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.", "AUTHOR": "Bjork", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.", "AUTHOR": "Muammar al-Gaddafi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph A. Schumpeter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.", "AUTHOR": "Eamon de Valera", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Young", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Making peace is harder than making war.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Wood Krutch", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Lurie", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no question that jihad historically means war.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.", "AUTHOR": "Allan Massie", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.", "AUTHOR": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Harper", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is like love it always finds a way.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Adler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope my own children never have to fight a war.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For what can war, but endless war, still breed?", "AUTHOR": "John Milton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.", "AUTHOR": "John Andrew Holmes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.", "AUTHOR": "St. Jerome", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.", "AUTHOR": "Judy Biggert", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.", "AUTHOR": "Hannah Arendt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Accurst be he that first invented war.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the continuation of politics by other means.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hardy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.", "AUTHOR": "Benito Mussolini", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.", "AUTHOR": "Duke of Wellington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.", "AUTHOR": "Ernie Pyle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is what happens when language fails.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.", "AUTHOR": "John Podhoretz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.", "AUTHOR": "Shelby Foote", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.", "AUTHOR": "Smedley Butler", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Marcos", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was in the First World War.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When there's a war, people get married.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Cain", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Pound", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is produced by war.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Corneille", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Gregory", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All war represents a failure of diplomacy.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Benn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin O'Leary", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.", "AUTHOR": "R. Lee Ermey", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Bloomberg", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Accursed be he that first invented war.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Montesquieu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.", "AUTHOR": "Abbie Hoffman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Fournier", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.", "AUTHOR": "George Galloway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics is the womb in which war develops.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.", "AUTHOR": "Daryn Kagan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War itself is the enemy of the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth I", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.", "AUTHOR": "Stefan Zweig", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A bad peace is even worse than war.", "AUTHOR": "Tacitus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Biden", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.", "AUTHOR": "Luc de Clapiers", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Frank", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.", "AUTHOR": "Gerry Adams", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Singer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Dean", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.", "AUTHOR": "Peggy Noonan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.", "AUTHOR": "Joni Mitchell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Zetkin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Rabelais", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Prager", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.", "AUTHOR": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is over if you want it.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.", "AUTHOR": "James P. Hoffa", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Branson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Child", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.", "AUTHOR": "Anacreon", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.", "AUTHOR": "George McGovern", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.", "AUTHOR": "Baruch Spinoza", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.", "AUTHOR": "William Glasser", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.", "AUTHOR": "Alveda King", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Blair", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Curtis LeMay", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Sports is like a war without the killing.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.", "AUTHOR": "Gus Van Sant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.", "AUTHOR": "Clive Owen", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Malkin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.", "AUTHOR": "George Galloway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the province of danger.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Shuster", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't go to war with paparazzi.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Craig", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.", "AUTHOR": "Arlen Specter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.", "AUTHOR": "Howard Zinn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.", "AUTHOR": "George H. W. Bush", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Silver", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Bridges", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.", "AUTHOR": "Buffalo Bill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.", "AUTHOR": "Denzel Washington", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Yarrow", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.", "AUTHOR": "Lech Walesa", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.", "AUTHOR": "John Cory", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.", "AUTHOR": "James Lovelock", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the trade of Kings.", "AUTHOR": "John Dryden", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Twyla Tharp", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Gosling", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Bowen", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.", "AUTHOR": "Ramsey Clark", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.", "AUTHOR": "George Porter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.", "AUTHOR": "B. H. Liddell Hart", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Abbas", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Morpurgo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.", "AUTHOR": "Claude Chabrol", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When you go to war, both sides lose totally.", "AUTHOR": "Yoko Ono", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Taft", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.", "AUTHOR": "James P. Hoffa", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Mumford", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rove", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.", "AUTHOR": "Al Gore", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.", "AUTHOR": "Harlan Coben", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.", "AUTHOR": "William Alexander Henry", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Berwick", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.", "AUTHOR": "Lester B. Pearson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.", "AUTHOR": "James Cagney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Morgan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.", "AUTHOR": "George Galloway", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Von Clausewitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Miller", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.", "AUTHOR": "Iain Duncan Smith", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.", "AUTHOR": "Haruki Murakami", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.", "AUTHOR": "Elton John", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.", "AUTHOR": "Herodotus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Hagman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, there are no winners.", "AUTHOR": "Ramman Kenoun", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.", "AUTHOR": "P. D. James", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Costner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.", "AUTHOR": "John Foster Dulles", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Puzo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Read", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Bauer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Lin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Mosley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Terry Eagleton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Let him who desires peace prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Sheehan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Pinter", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Gaye", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicklaus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.", "AUTHOR": "Al Pacino", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.", "AUTHOR": "Loren Eiseley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Kendrick", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.", "AUTHOR": "H. Rap Brown", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Goodall", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.", "AUTHOR": "Shimon Peres", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Chavez", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I ended the war a horse ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Bedford Forrest", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Panetta", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Boone", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Merkel", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.", "AUTHOR": "John le Carre", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.", "AUTHOR": "J. B. Priestley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.", "AUTHOR": "J. G. Ballard", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Dershowitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.", "AUTHOR": "John W. Vessey, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.", "AUTHOR": "Ringo Starr", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Wyden", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Pitt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Henry A. Wallace", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?", "AUTHOR": "Rahm Emanuel", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Dunn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Lesko", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.", "AUTHOR": "Fareed Zakaria", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.", "AUTHOR": "Pitbull", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.", "AUTHOR": "James Thomson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.", "AUTHOR": "U Thant", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.", "AUTHOR": "Neville Chamberlain", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Bagehot", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "After every war someone has to tidy up.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Friedman", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Numan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.", "AUTHOR": "Sharron Angle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Kyle", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.", "AUTHOR": "John Boehner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Sheehan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Jarvis Cocker", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Moore", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.", "AUTHOR": "Geraldine Ferraro", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.", "AUTHOR": "Major R. Owens", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Kahn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Eagleburger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Ambrose", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Corcoran", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Foster Bennett", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?", "AUTHOR": "Oriana Fallaci", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Key", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Sheehan", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Boxer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfred Owen", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kemp", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Baruch", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.", "AUTHOR": "L. Neil Smith", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.", "AUTHOR": "L. Neil Smith", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Capa", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.", "AUTHOR": "Werner Herzog", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Capa", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.", "AUTHOR": "John Bolton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.", "AUTHOR": "Dougray Scott", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Liu", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolas Sarkozy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.", "AUTHOR": "Condoleezza Rice", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.", "AUTHOR": "Lindsey Graham", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.", "AUTHOR": "Maxine Waters", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Durrenmatt", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll Quigley", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Schumer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Jurgen Habermas", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.", "AUTHOR": "Elihu Root", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.", "AUTHOR": "Antonia Fraser", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Henderson", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.", "AUTHOR": "Sharon Stone", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Curt Schilling", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.", "AUTHOR": "Patty Hearst", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.", "AUTHOR": "Julien Benda", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Black", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.", "AUTHOR": "Douglas William Jerrold", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Hastert", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Turner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.", "AUTHOR": "Hamid Karzai", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Schlafly", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Ramstad", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Commoner", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Killing is the payoff of war.", "AUTHOR": "Morley Safer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Quinn", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.", "AUTHOR": "Barney Ross", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.", "AUTHOR": "Thom Yorke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Haneke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Wolfowitz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot be politically correct in a war.", "AUTHOR": "Rupert Everett", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Crow", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Huntsman, Jr.", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is fear cloaked in courage.", "AUTHOR": "William Westmoreland", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Walpole", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Barnes", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.", "AUTHOR": "Chelsea Clinton", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Cousin", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.", "AUTHOR": "Muqtada al Sadr", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In time of peace prepare for war.", "AUTHOR": "Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Browne", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hawke", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm against all war.", "AUTHOR": "Puff Daddy", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.", "AUTHOR": "George Soros", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Fillion", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Goodell", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ondaatje", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Mraz", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.", "AUTHOR": "John Salazar", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.", "AUTHOR": "Dana Rohrabacher", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.", "AUTHOR": "George Wald", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.", "AUTHOR": "Bianca Jagger", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The concept of war crimes is an American invention.", "AUTHOR": "George Wald", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "War is not civilized.", "AUTHOR": "Talib Kweli", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.", "AUTHOR": "George Wald", "GENRE": "war" }, { "QUOTE": "The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.", "AUTHOR": "Heraclitus", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Hansen", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Morley", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.", "AUTHOR": "Gwen Stefani", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions.", "AUTHOR": "Katy Perry", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Goldsmith", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.", "AUTHOR": "Trisha Goddard", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Epps", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.", "AUTHOR": "Emily Blunt", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding is such a girl thing.", "AUTHOR": "Selma Blair", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.", "AUTHOR": "James Beattie", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I really did put up all my wedding pictures on my website. And I swear to you, my wedding pictures got downloaded just as much as my bikini pictures.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.", "AUTHOR": "Sinead O'Connor", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hornung", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.", "AUTHOR": "Brian May", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "O month when they who love must love and wed.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hunt Jackson", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Pilkington", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.", "AUTHOR": "Star Jones", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Forlani", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.", "AUTHOR": "Eydie Gorme", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Simmons", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Smith", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Mariano", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.", "AUTHOR": "Piper Laurie", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Pepys", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.", "AUTHOR": "Bess Truman", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Bassey", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.", "AUTHOR": "King Edward VIII", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Sweeney", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Cantor", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Bagnold", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The most dangerous food is wedding cake.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Roosevelt Longworth", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a big church wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.", "AUTHOR": "John Mayer", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Simpson", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Anastasio", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I love a black wedding dress.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Sammy Davis, Jr.", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Walken", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I hated the royal wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Patrick Morrissey", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?", "AUTHOR": "Rachel McAdams", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.", "AUTHOR": "John Heywood", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.", "AUTHOR": "Jared Leto", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Ferguson", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid, which I've been lucky enough to be several times.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Garner", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Seymour", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown the reception hall smelled like feet.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.", "AUTHOR": "Sherri Shepherd", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time I ever look good dancing is if I'm next to my dad at a wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Deeley", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Peter O'Toole", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Hudson", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.", "AUTHOR": "Liza Minnelli", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.", "AUTHOR": "David Miliband", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Robert Livingstone", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Diament", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Fielding", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.", "AUTHOR": "Don DeLillo", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Vardalos", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.", "AUTHOR": "Nia Vardalos", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.", "AUTHOR": "Sophie Ellis Bextor", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Asquith", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Bass", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Cooper", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.", "AUTHOR": "Georgina Chapman", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Sinead O'Connor", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'", "AUTHOR": "Idina Menzel", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Holden", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!", "AUTHOR": "Debra Messing", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Cavallari", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Giggs", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Young", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Danny McBride", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Stone", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Roman Coppola", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Oldfield", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I went looking for dresses and realized there was a niche I could fill in the wedding dress market.", "AUTHOR": "Monique Lhuillier", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.", "AUTHOR": "Rob Bell", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Secada", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan White", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Preston", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Preston", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Battelle", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Denise Van Outen", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time.", "AUTHOR": "David Hyde Pierce", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'", "AUTHOR": "Bharati Mukherjee", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!", "AUTHOR": "Carmen Miranda", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Ben-Israel", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Nicole Appleton", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.", "AUTHOR": "Kathy Najimy", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Burton", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Max Greenfield", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Ivanka Trump", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry O'Connell", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin McDonald", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.", "AUTHOR": "Miles Teller", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work all the time, and now if there is a wedding, there's a concert, I'm there.", "AUTHOR": "Petra Nemcova", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Groban", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.", "AUTHOR": "January Jones", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Kemper", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Kemper", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Malone", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Coughlin", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Ferguson", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Lampley", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.", "AUTHOR": "Lily Aldridge", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony LaPaglia", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Juan Marichal", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.", "AUTHOR": "Sonya Walger", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.", "AUTHOR": "James Brolin", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Marlen Esparza", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Street-Porter", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!", "AUTHOR": "Anne Baxter", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to make your wedding day all about you.", "AUTHOR": "DJ Jazzy Jeff", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.", "AUTHOR": "Natasha Hamilton", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ian Cusick", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Madison", "GENRE": "wedding" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.", "AUTHOR": "Audrey Hepburn", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom begins in wonder.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.", "AUTHOR": "Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.", "AUTHOR": "William Arthur Ward", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners never quit and quitters never win.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.", "AUTHOR": "John C. Maxwell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Jackson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is a source of great strength.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the best policy.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A mistake is simply another way of doing things.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Graham", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Hogan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We can't command our love, but we can our actions.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.", "AUTHOR": "Herb Caen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Be happy. It's one way of being wise.", "AUTHOR": "Sidonie Gabrielle Colette", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Turn your wounds into wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.", "AUTHOR": "Publilius Syrus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The doors of wisdom are never shut.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.", "AUTHOR": "Archimedes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.", "AUTHOR": "George S. Patton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The less you talk, the more you're listened to.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Van Buren", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.", "AUTHOR": "John Muir", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Kenny", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.", "AUTHOR": "John Wooden", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Patience is the companion of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.", "AUTHOR": "Joey Adams", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Cleverness is not wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Buscaglia", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Rather", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is impossible to love and to be wise.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is found only in truth.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is learning what to overlook.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.", "AUTHOR": "Epictetus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Lippmann", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel J. Boorstin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is only great when he acts from passion.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "No man was ever wise by chance.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.", "AUTHOR": "Aesop", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.", "AUTHOR": "Logan P. Smith", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.", "AUTHOR": "Anton Chekhov", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is a sacred communion.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Garr", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Who is wise in love, love most, say least.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Start wide, expand further, and never look back.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Smith, Jr.", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.", "AUTHOR": "Hermann Hesse", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Wilson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is the mother of all wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise men make more opportunities than they find.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "James Huneker", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Tobias Smollett", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom outweighs any wealth.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hopkins", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar R. Fiedler", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Kay", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Paul", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Lanier", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Austin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Whately", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Shinichi Suzuki", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every silver lining has a cloud.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wilson Little", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Day", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Wyman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.", "AUTHOR": "Diogenes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom begins at the end.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Webster", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it.", "AUTHOR": "David Starr Jordan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.", "AUTHOR": "William Ralph Inge", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.", "AUTHOR": "Phil Jackson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Salisbury", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.", "AUTHOR": "Juvenal", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Dean Inge", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Lanier", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Barrymore", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.", "AUTHOR": "William Temple", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Underhill", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas B. Macaulay", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.", "AUTHOR": "Torquato Tasso", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Einstein", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A loving heart is the truest wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.", "AUTHOR": "Jimi Hendrix", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Jefferson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig van Beethoven", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.", "AUTHOR": "Socrates", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Asimov", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spurgeon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Clifford Stoll", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Louis Stevenson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Morihei Ueshiba", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Jackson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Dreiser", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.", "AUTHOR": "Rabindranath Tagore", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.", "AUTHOR": "Immanuel Kant", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.", "AUTHOR": "King Solomon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.", "AUTHOR": "Ansel Adams", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Epicurus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Tullius Cicero", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.", "AUTHOR": "Aleister Crowley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom comes alone through suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is true wisdom's best reply.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom comes by disillusionment.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Anderson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A short saying often contains much wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.", "AUTHOR": "Robert E. Lee", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Abelard", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.", "AUTHOR": "Plutarch", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.", "AUTHOR": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.", "AUTHOR": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.", "AUTHOR": "King Abdullah II", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Isaac Rubin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "William Osler", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.", "AUTHOR": "Venerable Bede", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bodhidharma", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!", "AUTHOR": "Homer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.", "AUTHOR": "James Madison", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Addison", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.", "AUTHOR": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.", "AUTHOR": "William Penn", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.", "AUTHOR": "Lin Yutang", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.", "AUTHOR": "William Wordsworth", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Chen Shui-bian", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!", "AUTHOR": "William Eardley IV", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?", "AUTHOR": "Gwyneth Paltrow", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Hobbes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Hall", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Will Durant", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandre Dumas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.", "AUTHOR": "M. Scott Peck", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.", "AUTHOR": "William Congreve", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Caleb Colton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Parker", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuangzi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Klee", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.", "AUTHOR": "William Cowper", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.", "AUTHOR": "John Patrick", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Clapton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Paton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.", "AUTHOR": "Edith Wharton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.", "AUTHOR": "Bertolt Brecht", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.", "AUTHOR": "Omar N. Bradley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.", "AUTHOR": "Sacha Guitry", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.", "AUTHOR": "Aristophanes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Caine", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness is wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Turner", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gilbert", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Pietro Aretino", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Orlean", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Hopkins", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.", "AUTHOR": "Graham Greene", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Rene Russo", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.", "AUTHOR": "Zhuang Zi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Nimoy", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.", "AUTHOR": "Saadi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.", "AUTHOR": "Plautus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Andreessen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence Sterne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Kraus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.", "AUTHOR": "Avery Brooks", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Carly Fiorina", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Campolo", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.", "AUTHOR": "William Law", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.", "AUTHOR": "Georg C. Lichtenberg", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Garfield", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred North Whitehead", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Cousins", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Gaskell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.", "AUTHOR": "Tina Turner", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Engle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick William Robertson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Lasch", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Connolly", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Julian Casablancas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Near", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.", "AUTHOR": "Eliot Spitzer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.", "AUTHOR": "Barry White", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.", "AUTHOR": "John Updike", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Prince", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Christie", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Grey", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Benjamin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.", "AUTHOR": "Freeman Dyson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.", "AUTHOR": "Milan Kundera", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Sacks", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.", "AUTHOR": "will.i.am", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Igor Stravinsky", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Charron", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Farage", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Myrtle Reed", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.", "AUTHOR": "Evelyn Waugh", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Rogers", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Fonda", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony Trollope", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Young", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Helps", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Sheen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Cheney", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Woodward", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Cat Cora", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Kenichi Fukui", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Stiglitz", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Smiley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Smiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Theroux", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.", "AUTHOR": "Johannes Tauler", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.", "AUTHOR": "David Brainerd", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.", "AUTHOR": "Jason Aldean", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.", "AUTHOR": "Constantin Stanislavski", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard to know what wisdom is.", "AUTHOR": "James Hillman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Ray Cyrus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Alterman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Reeve", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Kirkland", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Marcel", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.", "AUTHOR": "Jaron Lanier", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac D'Israeli", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Palmer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Taylor", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.", "AUTHOR": "George Arliss", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.", "AUTHOR": "Isocrates", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.", "AUTHOR": "John Cheever", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Wislawa Szymborska", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.", "AUTHOR": "John Woolman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.", "AUTHOR": "Mayim Bialik", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.", "AUTHOR": "John Selden", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.", "AUTHOR": "John Henry Newman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Astell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'", "AUTHOR": "Bill Bradley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth St. Denis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Oliver", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Wilhelm von Humboldt", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Roux", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Dae Kim", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Gardiner", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Crow", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.", "AUTHOR": "Stanley Kunitz", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Quarles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.", "AUTHOR": "Henning Mankell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.", "AUTHOR": "George A. Romero", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Joe Baca", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Emanuel Swedenborg", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Le Gallienne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Bradstreet", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jennings", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Byrne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Pater", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Ries", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.", "AUTHOR": "Kiana Tom", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.", "AUTHOR": "Estelle Getty", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Joshua Foer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Bachelet", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Herbie Hancock", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.", "AUTHOR": "Rowan D. Williams", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Teasdale", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Spalding", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.", "AUTHOR": "Greg Walden", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.", "AUTHOR": "K. D. Lang", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Weatherill", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Comfort", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ibn Gabirol", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Dale Owen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Pratt", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Barber Lightfoot", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.", "AUTHOR": "Lactantius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.", "AUTHOR": "Esther Williams", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Bergamin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.", "AUTHOR": "James Prescott Joule", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.", "AUTHOR": "Pindar", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Marling", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Lewis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Hesse", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Mendes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Clarke", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth McGovern", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Berkley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.", "AUTHOR": "Jenny Shipley", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.", "AUTHOR": "Elena Kagan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.", "AUTHOR": "William O. Douglas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carr", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no wisdom to share on dating.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Dratch", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Guber", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Schiff", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Clooney", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.", "AUTHOR": "Hal Borland", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Ward Howe", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "John Webster", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Parker Stevenson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ricoeur", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ricoeur", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Maeterlinck", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.", "AUTHOR": "Gerald Brenan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.", "AUTHOR": "David Limbaugh", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.", "AUTHOR": "Johan Huizinga", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.", "AUTHOR": "John A. Simone, Sr.", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.", "AUTHOR": "Beau Bridges", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.", "AUTHOR": "Ray LaMontagne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kurzweil", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.", "AUTHOR": "Shakti Gawain", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Louis-Dreyfus", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.", "AUTHOR": "Nan Hayworth", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Robinson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.", "AUTHOR": "Solon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.", "AUTHOR": "Felix Frankfurter", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Merry Browne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Ascham", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.", "AUTHOR": "Dora Russell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Traherne", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.", "AUTHOR": "Arianna Huffington", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Miller", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bartiromo", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Porter", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Brolin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.", "AUTHOR": "William Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.", "AUTHOR": "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.", "AUTHOR": "China Mieville", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Udall", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Riccardo Muti", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Jekyll", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.", "AUTHOR": "Richard V. Allen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Reid", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard De Voto", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.", "AUTHOR": "Quintus Ennius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.", "AUTHOR": "Michael D. Higgins", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.", "AUTHOR": "James Newman", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Bridges", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.", "AUTHOR": "Lactantius", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.", "AUTHOR": "Octavio Paz", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Marcia Cross", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Helms", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.", "AUTHOR": "Origen", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Vincent Benet", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Stiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Stiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Ezra Stiles", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.", "AUTHOR": "Archibald MacLeish", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.", "AUTHOR": "Chad Harbach", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.", "AUTHOR": "William Dean Howells", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Albini", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.", "AUTHOR": "John Avlon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Cudworth", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.", "AUTHOR": "John Denham", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.", "AUTHOR": "Abbott L. Lowell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Elton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Miliband", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.", "AUTHOR": "Minna Antrim", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Luke", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Coyle", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Menander", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Chapin Carpenter", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.", "AUTHOR": "Roone Arledge", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Georg Hamann", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.", "AUTHOR": "Omar Sharif", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Greengrass", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.", "AUTHOR": "Wallace Stegner", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Conrad", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.", "AUTHOR": "Joanna Southcott", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Dean Stanton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Merchant", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.", "AUTHOR": "Robert South", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dekker", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Curtis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.", "AUTHOR": "Knut Hamsun", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.", "AUTHOR": "William Whitehead", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth George", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Simmons", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.", "AUTHOR": "Hippolyte Taine", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Courage is always the surest wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfred Grenfell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Bodin", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.", "AUTHOR": "Erin Gray", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.", "AUTHOR": "Pratibha Patil", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.", "AUTHOR": "Lianne La Havas", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Gee", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.", "AUTHOR": "Bennie Thompson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.", "AUTHOR": "Shmuel Y. Agnon", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Courbet", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Richardson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.", "AUTHOR": "Xi Jinping", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.", "AUTHOR": "John George Nicolay", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Cecil", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Inglis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.", "AUTHOR": "John Jewel", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.", "AUTHOR": "George Combe", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Hook", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.", "AUTHOR": "David Puttnam", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?", "AUTHOR": "Martin Farquhar Tupper", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Hammill", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.", "AUTHOR": "George Crabbe", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.", "AUTHOR": "Thandie Newton", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy Collier", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Hardwick", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Story", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom sails with wind and time.", "AUTHOR": "John Florio", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.", "AUTHOR": "James Buchanan", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.", "AUTHOR": "William Dunbar", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.", "AUTHOR": "Rosemarie DeWitt", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Levi", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Reid", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Forbes", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.", "AUTHOR": "Wade Davis", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Cohn", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Strauss", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Theodoros II", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Liu Xiaobo", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.", "AUTHOR": "Liz Carpenter", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy White", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.", "AUTHOR": "Wilfrid Sheed", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Shepard", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Henry Fischer", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "The result showed the wisdom of your orders.", "AUTHOR": "John Bigelow", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Nina Totenberg", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.", "AUTHOR": "Stanford Moore", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Hutcheson", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.", "AUTHOR": "Lord John Russell", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.", "AUTHOR": "Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.", "GENRE": "wisdom" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.", "AUTHOR": "John Lennon", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When women go wrong, men go right after them.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Sinatra", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Timothy Leary", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I always play women I would date.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.", "AUTHOR": "Little Richard", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The only really happy folk are married women and single men.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.", "AUTHOR": "B. R. Ambedkar", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.", "AUTHOR": "John Barrymore", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Disraeli", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I owe nothing to Women's Lib.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Jones", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.", "AUTHOR": "Farrah Fawcett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.", "AUTHOR": "Francis Bacon", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.", "AUTHOR": "Desiderius Erasmus", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.", "AUTHOR": "Yul Brynner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Barr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Sofia Vergara", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.", "AUTHOR": "Kathleen Turner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Oldman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they ain't got.", "AUTHOR": "Josh Billings", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the real architects of society.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of civilization is its estimate of women.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Moran", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day.", "AUTHOR": "Heinrich Heine", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women hold up half the sky.", "AUTHOR": "Mao Zedong", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.", "AUTHOR": "Ziggy Marley", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.", "AUTHOR": "Dorothy Day", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.", "AUTHOR": "Charlize Theron", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.", "AUTHOR": "Evita Peron", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women, women and men. It will never work.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "America is a land where men govern, but women rule.", "AUTHOR": "John Mason Brown", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Wurtzel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When anything goes, it's women who lose.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Van Dyke", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.", "AUTHOR": "George Clooney", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.", "AUTHOR": "Alphonse Karr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.", "AUTHOR": "Juvenal", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Hutchence", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Sheehy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Bowen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.", "AUTHOR": "Marion Jones", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are excellent social critics.", "AUTHOR": "Laurie Anderson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Durrell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cuomo", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Glasgow", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.", "AUTHOR": "Courtney Love", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Bernice Johnson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have a predestination to suffering.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Perkins Gilman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Mizrahi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.", "AUTHOR": "Daphne du Maurier", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.", "AUTHOR": "George Byron", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Bonino", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Georg Buchner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.", "AUTHOR": "Holly Near", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women don't realize how powerful they are.", "AUTHOR": "Judith Light", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.", "AUTHOR": "Antonia Fraser", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are women, and hurray for that.", "AUTHOR": "John Galliano", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Spock", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.", "AUTHOR": "Minna Antrim", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa Bonet", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Kelly", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.", "AUTHOR": "Christine Baranski", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.", "AUTHOR": "Jill Clayburgh", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Williams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.", "AUTHOR": "Deborah Tannen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.", "AUTHOR": "Gavin DeGraw", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women hear rhythm differently than men.", "AUTHOR": "Elvis Costello", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.", "AUTHOR": "John Galliano", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have this obsession with shoes.", "AUTHOR": "Alexandra Paul", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Knight", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Were there no women, men might live like gods.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Dekker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are made to be loved, not understood.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.", "AUTHOR": "Robert A. Heinlein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Morrow Lindbergh", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women may fall when there's no strength in men.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's vows are women's traitors!", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.", "AUTHOR": "C. S. Lewis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle Onassis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are nothing but machines for producing children.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Bonaparte", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.", "AUTHOR": "John Gray", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I hate women because they always know where things are.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Paine", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women should be obscene and not heard.", "AUTHOR": "Groucho Marx", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Boyd", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.", "AUTHOR": "Charles V", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Pryor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women. They are a complete mystery.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Barreca", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.", "AUTHOR": "Marlene Dietrich", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Marcil", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Henri Frederic Amiel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.", "AUTHOR": "Orlando Bloom", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.", "AUTHOR": "Reese Witherspoon", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.", "AUTHOR": "Cornel West", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The battle for women's rights has been largely won.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Jessica Parker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.", "AUTHOR": "Elle Macpherson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.", "AUTHOR": "Carroll O'Connor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Manson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Taylor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A women's greatest asset is her beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Comfort", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.", "AUTHOR": "Abbe Pierre", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Whitman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Goldwater", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.", "AUTHOR": "Nora Ephron", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.", "AUTHOR": "Lil Wayne", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.", "AUTHOR": "John Gray", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.", "AUTHOR": "Ambrose Bierce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Pawlenty", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Cartland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Geoffrey Chaucer", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Maslow", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.", "AUTHOR": "Anita Brookner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Manson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Munn", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Elliot", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Bon Jovi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.", "AUTHOR": "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.", "AUTHOR": "George Jean Nathan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Schmich", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.", "AUTHOR": "Pat Robertson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Lopez", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Strong women only marry weak men.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Piaget", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "On one issue at least, men and women agree they both distrust women.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.", "AUTHOR": "Fran Lebowitz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.", "AUTHOR": "Christian Dior", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Maher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.", "AUTHOR": "Alexei Sayle", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Johnson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara de Angelis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.", "AUTHOR": "Mary J. Blige", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Allen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.", "AUTHOR": "Wilson Mizner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.", "AUTHOR": "Iris Murdoch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always liked men better than women.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Delpy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.", "AUTHOR": "George Santayana", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The education of women is the best way to save the environment.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.", "AUTHOR": "David Ogilvy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women are one man away from welfare.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Lee", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Austen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.", "AUTHOR": "Joyce Brothers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.", "AUTHOR": "Guy de Maupassant", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Rosenberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.", "AUTHOR": "George Burns", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Day", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Elayne Boosler", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.", "AUTHOR": "George Raft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Silence is an ornament for women.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Warren", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Ali Jinnah", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.", "AUTHOR": "William Cobbett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Grace in women has more effect than beauty.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Gompers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.", "AUTHOR": "Augustus Y. Napier", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.", "AUTHOR": "John Cusack", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Benedict XVI", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.", "AUTHOR": "Sojourner Truth", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "James Hetfield", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Ani DiFranco", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.", "AUTHOR": "A. N. Wilson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans fools and women will take a little longer.", "AUTHOR": "Spiro T. Agnew", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.", "AUTHOR": "Abigail Adams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of us women like men, you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Short", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.", "AUTHOR": "Kiefer Sutherland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.", "AUTHOR": "Gilda Radner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.", "AUTHOR": "Kerry Washington", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.", "AUTHOR": "Leland Stanford", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.", "AUTHOR": "David Bailey", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Giraudoux", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.", "AUTHOR": "Erica Jong", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Hicks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Wang", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.", "AUTHOR": "Mikhail Bakunin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.", "AUTHOR": "Giacomo Casanova", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.", "AUTHOR": "Vanessa Marcil", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Curie", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.", "AUTHOR": "Louis Farrakhan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Cohen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.", "AUTHOR": "Babe Ruth", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Sessions", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.", "AUTHOR": "Molly Ivins", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.", "AUTHOR": "Ovid", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.", "AUTHOR": "Elie Wiesel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.", "AUTHOR": "Golda Meir", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.", "AUTHOR": "Coretta Scott King", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.", "AUTHOR": "Edvard Munch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Rudner", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women lie about their age men lie about their income.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.", "AUTHOR": "Fay Weldon", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men want to make women happy.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.", "AUTHOR": "Adele", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Romney", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Whitton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are always beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Ville Valo", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.", "AUTHOR": "Wentworth Miller", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men get laid, but women get screwed.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Crisp", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.", "AUTHOR": "Ric Flair", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.", "AUTHOR": "Danica McKellar", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that women need to smell interesting.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Williams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Saltz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Rock", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.", "AUTHOR": "Gene Tierney", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.", "AUTHOR": "Harriet Beecher Stowe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jay Friedman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women.", "AUTHOR": "Germaine Greer", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love a self-confident bald man.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.", "AUTHOR": "Louis D. Brandeis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.", "AUTHOR": "Malcolm De Chazal", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.", "AUTHOR": "Helena Rubinstein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.", "AUTHOR": "Adrienne Rich", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.", "AUTHOR": "Rita Mae Brown", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.", "AUTHOR": "Hedy Lamarr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Gibson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca West", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Sparks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Sontag", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women have strengths that complement each other.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.", "AUTHOR": "Marlon Brando", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope that women everywhere will wear this jewelry and feel the passion and love that is, to me, the real spirit of True Harmony.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Rodman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.", "AUTHOR": "Chinua Achebe", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It's quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.", "AUTHOR": "Mick Jagger", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are the real reason we get up every day. I'm talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I'm hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Klein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marco Rubio", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.", "AUTHOR": "James Larkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Carter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.", "AUTHOR": "Susan Faludi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Bush", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Chesterfield", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Gygax", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Chisholm", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.", "AUTHOR": "Kathryn Bigelow", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing.", "AUTHOR": "Jenna Elfman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.", "AUTHOR": "Grace Kelly", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've learned is you treat women right.", "AUTHOR": "Tyler Perry", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Rowland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.", "AUTHOR": "George Balanchine", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.", "AUTHOR": "William Allen White", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.", "AUTHOR": "Jasmine Guy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.", "AUTHOR": "Camryn Manheim", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All German women are beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They're not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.", "AUTHOR": "Eva Herzigova", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.", "AUTHOR": "Shakira", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.", "AUTHOR": "Georges Pompidou", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen Barkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.", "AUTHOR": "Kofi Annan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Harvey", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Smith", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.", "AUTHOR": "Marie Osmond", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.", "AUTHOR": "Fanny Brice", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.", "AUTHOR": "Amelia Earhart", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.", "AUTHOR": "Miguel de Cervantes", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.", "AUTHOR": "Tyra Banks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Clinton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.", "AUTHOR": "Sargent Shriver", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas R. Dewar", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Jackson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.", "AUTHOR": "Jeanette Winterson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.", "AUTHOR": "Marge Piercy", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar de la Renta", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women would rather be right than reasonable.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.", "AUTHOR": "Ninon de L'Enclos", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women are not as young as they are painted.", "AUTHOR": "Max Beerbohm", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.", "AUTHOR": "Gro Harlem Brundtland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.", "AUTHOR": "Cicely Tyson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.", "AUTHOR": "Bela Lugosi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men tend to feel threatened women tend to feel guilty.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.", "AUTHOR": "Larry David", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Dayton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Cruz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.", "AUTHOR": "Brigitte Bardot", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Cohen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.", "AUTHOR": "James Thurber", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Campion", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?", "AUTHOR": "Tina Fey", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Kerr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Lynch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Nixon Eisenhower", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.", "AUTHOR": "Veronica Franco", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.", "AUTHOR": "Andie MacDowell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.", "AUTHOR": "Madeleine Albright", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No one wants to see curvy women.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Lagerfeld", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.", "AUTHOR": "Shania Twain", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.", "AUTHOR": "Bessie Coleman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.", "AUTHOR": "Megan Fox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.", "AUTHOR": "Betsey Johnson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.", "AUTHOR": "Wangari Maathai", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.", "AUTHOR": "John Calvin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.", "AUTHOR": "Casey Stengel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Montagu", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Stiles", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Sanger", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Crystal", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I gravitate toward women.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Attell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.", "AUTHOR": "Taslima Nasrin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Blass", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.", "AUTHOR": "Camille Paglia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.", "AUTHOR": "Zoe Saldana", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Izzard", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.", "AUTHOR": "Noam Chomsky", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Farrar Capon", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Granholm", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolph Valentino", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been out with some extremely beautiful women who have had no sex appeal whatsoever. It really is a lot more than skin deep.", "AUTHOR": "Rod Stewart", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.", "AUTHOR": "Morris Chestnut", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Ursula K. Le Guin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You think intercourse is a private act it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Americans like fat books and thin women.", "AUTHOR": "Russell Baker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.", "AUTHOR": "Catherine Deneuve", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Curtis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.", "AUTHOR": "Suze Orman", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No one knows what women want!", "AUTHOR": "Ian Somerhalder", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Farrell", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.", "AUTHOR": "Isabel Allende", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.", "AUTHOR": "Lisa See", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.", "AUTHOR": "Keanu Reeves", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Walker", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.", "AUTHOR": "Muhammad Yunus", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.", "AUTHOR": "Francois Truffaut", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.", "AUTHOR": "Sean Connery", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.", "AUTHOR": "Carol P. Christ", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.", "AUTHOR": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.", "AUTHOR": "Janice Dickinson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Duras", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Daniels", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.", "AUTHOR": "Loretta Lynn", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are still second-class citizens.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Jett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Nicholson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.", "AUTHOR": "Toni Morrison", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think older women still have a full life.", "AUTHOR": "Betty White", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Banderas", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.", "AUTHOR": "Vivienne Westwood", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.", "AUTHOR": "Marya Mannes", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.", "AUTHOR": "Clayton Christensen", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Nightingale", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.", "AUTHOR": "Francesca Annis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Vaughan", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.", "AUTHOR": "Maurice Sendak", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Zetkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's issues have always been a part of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Roberts", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley MacLaine", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Sharapova", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I also use women as a sex object maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Reed", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Conrad", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.", "AUTHOR": "Yakov Smirnoff", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.", "AUTHOR": "Solomon Ortiz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn French", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Dworkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Palin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Dee Myers", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.", "AUTHOR": "Saul Bellow", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Kors", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.", "AUTHOR": "Kristin Scott Thomas", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We had like a jolt of women in country, and it seems like we're just kind of there now.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Lambert", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.", "AUTHOR": "Jello Biafra", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "All my friends' mothers were appalling women.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.", "AUTHOR": "Neil LaBute", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.", "AUTHOR": "Doris Lessing", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Joel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Equal pay isn't just a women's issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Honda", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Wollstonecraft", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Pelosi", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.", "AUTHOR": "David Duchovny", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie P. Meek", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.", "AUTHOR": "Grover Cleveland", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Hoover", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.", "AUTHOR": "Roberto Cavalli", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.", "AUTHOR": "Karen Horney", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.", "AUTHOR": "Clara Zetkin", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Harris Jones", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Freud", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.", "AUTHOR": "Ruth Bader Ginsburg", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Craig", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.", "AUTHOR": "Patti Smith", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.", "AUTHOR": "Rudolph Valentino", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.", "AUTHOR": "Seann William Scott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.", "AUTHOR": "Marguerite Yourcenar", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Nicks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.", "AUTHOR": "Kate Fox", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?", "AUTHOR": "Kate Millett", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.", "AUTHOR": "Vera Farmiga", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Day O'Connor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Deidre Hall", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.", "AUTHOR": "Nadia Giosia", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.", "AUTHOR": "Kesha", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.", "AUTHOR": "Leah Ward Sears", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.", "AUTHOR": "Teri Garr", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.", "AUTHOR": "Sachin Tendulkar", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes.", "AUTHOR": "Karen McDougal", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!", "AUTHOR": "Robert Ballard", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.", "AUTHOR": "Sienna Miller", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.", "AUTHOR": "Martha Plimpton", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I feel sorry... for people who've had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.", "AUTHOR": "Clare Boothe Luce", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.", "AUTHOR": "Theresa May", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Sandler", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Lauren", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.", "AUTHOR": "Kelly Osbourne", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Buyer", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Paul", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Cho", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Duvall", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.", "AUTHOR": "Bell Hooks", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Heigl", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.", "AUTHOR": "Billie Jean King", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I love women more than anything.", "AUTHOR": "Vin Diesel", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Richardson", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.", "AUTHOR": "Rachel Weisz", "GENRE": "women" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing will work unless you do.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.", "AUTHOR": "Sam Ewing", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is the curse of the drinking classes.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Campbell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All things are difficult before they are easy.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Fuller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.", "AUTHOR": "Al Capp", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The pay is good and I can walk to work.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Frank", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The harder I work, the luckier I get.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Goldwyn", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no substitute for hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We work to become, not to acquire.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.", "AUTHOR": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Booker T. Washington", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Management is nothing more than motivating other people.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Landers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.", "AUTHOR": "Henry J. Kaiser", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every noble work is at first impossible.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'", "AUTHOR": "Don Marquis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Esar", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work alone is noble.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.", "AUTHOR": "Edgar Winter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ogden Nash", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Horace", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.", "AUTHOR": "Louis C. K.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Norman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.", "AUTHOR": "Byron Dorgan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Gehry", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold J. Toynbee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You're blessed if you have the strength to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Richards", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Management must manage!", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.", "AUTHOR": "George Halas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Nelson Bolles", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.", "AUTHOR": "George Sand", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Golden", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Ustinov", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.", "AUTHOR": "Harold S. Geneen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "By the work one knows the workman.", "AUTHOR": "Jean de La Fontaine", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Chagall", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Budge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Livingston", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.", "AUTHOR": "Abu Bakr", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.", "AUTHOR": "Lawrence Welk", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.", "AUTHOR": "Dmitri Mendeleev", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.", "AUTHOR": "Irvin S. Cobb", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.", "AUTHOR": "Leigh Steinberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm working myself to death.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Ladd", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kettering", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.", "AUTHOR": "James Levine", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.", "AUTHOR": "C. Northcote Parkinson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.", "AUTHOR": "William Gibson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Fuller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Scott Card", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Gilbert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Wager", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Nelson Bolles", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Luther King, Jr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A dream doesn't become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Lee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.", "AUTHOR": "J. Paul Getty", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.", "AUTHOR": "Buddha", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.", "AUTHOR": "Mother Teresa", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.", "AUTHOR": "Sasha Cohen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.", "AUTHOR": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.", "AUTHOR": "Emo Philips", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.", "AUTHOR": "Philip Green", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.", "AUTHOR": "Rumi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Morrison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Camus", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group there is less competition there.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.", "AUTHOR": "Eleanor Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.", "AUTHOR": "Newt Gingrich", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Wilde", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ford", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'", "AUTHOR": "Lao Tzu", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Ionesco", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Augustine", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.", "AUTHOR": "Aristotle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.", "AUTHOR": "Confucius", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?", "AUTHOR": "Khalil Gibran", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.", "AUTHOR": "Nelson Mandela", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't really a work conscious type of person.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jordan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.", "AUTHOR": "Zig Ziglar", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn Monroe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.", "AUTHOR": "Satchel Paige", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Wayne Dyer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Francis of Assisi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Isaac Rubin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.", "AUTHOR": "Ron Paul", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It feels good to have your work respected again.", "AUTHOR": "Eminem", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Gulbis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.", "AUTHOR": "Chanakya", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.", "AUTHOR": "Brad Henry", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Rohn", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?", "AUTHOR": "Henry David Thoreau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.", "AUTHOR": "Grandma Moses", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.", "AUTHOR": "George Bernard Shaw", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.", "AUTHOR": "Greta Scacchi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.", "AUTHOR": "Vince Lombardi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Watts", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.", "AUTHOR": "Elbert Hubbard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People say you have to work on your resentments. Yeah, no, I'm gonna hang onto them and they're gonna fuel my attack.", "AUTHOR": "Charlie Sheen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Cosby", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Jobs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition.", "AUTHOR": "Indira Gandhi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.", "AUTHOR": "Mae West", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Carnegie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen King", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.", "AUTHOR": "John Carmack", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning is the most important part of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Graham Bell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Lord Tennyson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.", "AUTHOR": "Ayn Rand", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Turner", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.", "AUTHOR": "Plato", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Change yourself and your work will seem different.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.", "AUTHOR": "Will Smith", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Dylan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.", "AUTHOR": "Will Rogers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.", "AUTHOR": "Roseanne Barr", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned the value of hard work by working hard.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Mead", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You reach a point where you don't work for money.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Hemingway", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Jackson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.", "AUTHOR": "Abdul Kalam", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.", "AUTHOR": "Paulo Coelho", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitch Hedberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Rule", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.", "AUTHOR": "Barack Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.", "AUTHOR": "Napoleon Hill", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.", "AUTHOR": "Gail Devers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Larson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.", "AUTHOR": "Fyodor Dostoevsky", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Life is too short to work so hard.", "AUTHOR": "Vivien Leigh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas J. Watson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.", "AUTHOR": "Voltaire", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Hepburn", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.", "AUTHOR": "Anthony de Mello", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.", "AUTHOR": "Conan O'Brien", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Welling", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.", "AUTHOR": "Walt Disney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Hawken", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Depp", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.", "AUTHOR": "Marcus Aurelius", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Wright", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Prefontaine", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Copeland", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon B. Hinckley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.", "AUTHOR": "Sigmund Freud", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.", "AUTHOR": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.", "AUTHOR": "Al Goldstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Mencken", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I still work out on a daily basis.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Eastwood", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Thatcher", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Jessica Savitch", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.", "AUTHOR": "Mitt Romney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Rogers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Zappa", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.", "AUTHOR": "Hubert H. Humphrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Hamilton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.", "AUTHOR": "Ayrton Senna", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.", "AUTHOR": "Bill O'Reilly", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.", "AUTHOR": "Bertrand Russell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.", "AUTHOR": "Pablo Picasso", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.", "AUTHOR": "Faith Hill", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas A. Edison", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.", "AUTHOR": "Nikola Tesla", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Valery", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Hewitt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.", "AUTHOR": "William James", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Angelina Jolie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Brown", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.", "AUTHOR": "Aldous Huxley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.", "AUTHOR": "Lucille Ball", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.", "AUTHOR": "Woody Allen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Scovel Shinn", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!", "AUTHOR": "Og Mandino", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Trump", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.", "AUTHOR": "Marquis de Sade", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.", "AUTHOR": "James Cash Penney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.", "AUTHOR": "Leo Tolstoy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'", "AUTHOR": "Max Planck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.", "AUTHOR": "Louis L'Amour", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Bradbury", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Jung", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?", "AUTHOR": "Barbra Streisand", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Stanislaw Lec", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.", "AUTHOR": "Edmund Burke", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.", "AUTHOR": "Hillary Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Carlyle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!", "AUTHOR": "Richard P. Feynman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Sowell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.", "AUTHOR": "Ed Bradley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.", "AUTHOR": "Ron White", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.", "AUTHOR": "Louisa May Alcott", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Palahniuk", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Tracy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.", "AUTHOR": "Nhat Hanh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Radcliffe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.", "AUTHOR": "Kinky Friedman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.", "AUTHOR": "Salvador Dali", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.", "AUTHOR": "H. L. Hunt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight D. Eisenhower", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.", "AUTHOR": "George Allen, Sr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo da Vinci", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl Bailey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.", "AUTHOR": "W. E. B. Du Bois", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Prefontaine", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Montessori", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Kiyosaki", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.", "AUTHOR": "Marcel Proust", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Mays", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!", "AUTHOR": "Charles Darwin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Erwin Wilson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Quindlen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.", "AUTHOR": "Temple Grandin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.", "AUTHOR": "Orison Swett Marden", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.", "AUTHOR": "Salman Rushdie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Armstrong", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.", "AUTHOR": "Maxim Gorky", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "God continues to work miracles in my life.", "AUTHOR": "Willie Aames", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.", "AUTHOR": "Milton Friedman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.", "AUTHOR": "Hazrat Inayat Khan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Larry Bird", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Schweitzer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Drucker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Illich", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not wait the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.", "AUTHOR": "Rose Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Merton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.", "AUTHOR": "Allen Boyd", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Adams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.", "AUTHOR": "J. Michael Straczynski", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.", "AUTHOR": "Michelangelo", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.", "AUTHOR": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.", "AUTHOR": "Frederick Douglass", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One must work and dare if one really wants to live.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Van Gogh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.", "AUTHOR": "Denis Waitley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Meloni", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.", "AUTHOR": "Emile Zola", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.", "AUTHOR": "Agha Hasan Abedi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.", "AUTHOR": "Seth Godin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.", "AUTHOR": "King Hussein I", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Schopenhauer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.", "AUTHOR": "Tia Mowry", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret J. Wheatley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Lamott", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.", "AUTHOR": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.", "AUTHOR": "Harry S. Truman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Lillie Langtry", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.", "AUTHOR": "H. P. Lovecraft", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.", "AUTHOR": "Minnie Pearl", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.", "AUTHOR": "Andy Warhol", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.", "AUTHOR": "David Sarnoff", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.", "AUTHOR": "Harvey Fierstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.", "AUTHOR": "Anatole France", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.", "AUTHOR": "John Lubbock", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.", "AUTHOR": "Demi Lovato", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.", "AUTHOR": "Tiger Woods", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.", "AUTHOR": "Alain Prost", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work and my family are very important to me.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Hawking", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.", "AUTHOR": "Marilyn vos Savant", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.", "AUTHOR": "Eileen Caddy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.", "AUTHOR": "Alanis Morissette", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.", "AUTHOR": "Marlee Matlin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Hoffman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.", "AUTHOR": "Kris Kristofferson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Pavlova", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Bartiromo", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Whether for life or death, do your own work well.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.", "AUTHOR": "John Ruskin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Kawasaki", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.", "AUTHOR": "John Dewey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every person born into this world their work is born with them.", "AUTHOR": "James Russell Lowell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.", "AUTHOR": "Michel de Montaigne", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.", "AUTHOR": "Simone de Beauvoir", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John XXIII", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Powell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Leibovitz", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.", "AUTHOR": "Alvin Ailey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?", "AUTHOR": "Paul Ryan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Castenada", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.", "AUTHOR": "Jerome K. Jerome", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.", "AUTHOR": "Marianne Williamson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.", "AUTHOR": "James Dean", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.", "AUTHOR": "Saint Teresa of Avila", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.", "AUTHOR": "Ray Kroc", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.", "AUTHOR": "Gore Vidal", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.", "AUTHOR": "Gertrude Stein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.", "AUTHOR": "Don Cheadle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.", "AUTHOR": "Arnold Schwarzenegger", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Eubanks", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Aguilera", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.", "AUTHOR": "P. T. Barnum", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "An honest man's the noblest work of God.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.", "AUTHOR": "Vaclav Havel", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "An honest God is the noblest work of man.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Green Ingersoll", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Lauryn Hill", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.", "AUTHOR": "Cesar Chavez", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.", "AUTHOR": "Randy Moss", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.", "AUTHOR": "William Moulton Marston", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.", "AUTHOR": "Fritz Scholder", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Half", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Iacocca", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.", "AUTHOR": "John Steinbeck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.", "AUTHOR": "Mattie Stepanek", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.", "AUTHOR": "Warren Beatty", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't work at being ordinary.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Pope", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.", "AUTHOR": "Derek Jeter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene V. Debs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Ball", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Heaton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.", "AUTHOR": "Lalu Prasad Yadav", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.", "AUTHOR": "George MacDonald", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.", "AUTHOR": "Lee Krasner", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.", "AUTHOR": "Taylor Swift", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.", "AUTHOR": "Marty Meehan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Welch", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I simply do not distinguish between work and play.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Oliver", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Lloyd Wright", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.", "AUTHOR": "Martina McBride", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.", "AUTHOR": "Nicolaus Copernicus", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Kelly", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.", "AUTHOR": "Dee Hock", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Dorff", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.", "AUTHOR": "Donna Leon", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Annenberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Hochschild", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Bunche", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.", "AUTHOR": "E. M. Forster", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.", "AUTHOR": "Angela Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.", "AUTHOR": "Linus Torvalds", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Yves Cousteau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.", "AUTHOR": "Kenny Chesney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Pleasence", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Phelps", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.", "AUTHOR": "Laura Ingalls Wilder", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.", "AUTHOR": "David Soul", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want peace work for justice.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Miller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.", "AUTHOR": "Cicely Tyson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.", "AUTHOR": "Sanford I. Weill", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Benson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.", "AUTHOR": "Joan Rivers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Marti", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.", "AUTHOR": "John Burroughs", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Staubach", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Woollcott", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.", "AUTHOR": "Chief Joseph", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Carnegie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Land", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Van Halen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Thomas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want.", "AUTHOR": "Heidi Klum", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.", "AUTHOR": "Jonas Salk", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Virginia Woolf", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.", "AUTHOR": "Ludwig Wittgenstein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Anouilh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.", "AUTHOR": "Sholom Aleichem", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.", "AUTHOR": "Daisaku Ikeda", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The days you work are the best days.", "AUTHOR": "Georgia O'Keeffe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Chang", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Huxley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to die as long as I can work the minute I can not, I want to go.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Durst", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Cruise", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.", "AUTHOR": "E. O. Wilson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to twist my arm to work.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Rollins", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.", "AUTHOR": "Susan B. Anthony", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.", "AUTHOR": "Jean Cocteau", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Change is such hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Crystal", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Foxworthy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.", "AUTHOR": "Blaine Lee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.", "AUTHOR": "Adlai E. Stevenson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Weiner", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself you want to try even harder to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "Princess Diana", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!", "AUTHOR": "David O. McKay", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "See, winners embrace hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.", "AUTHOR": "Jay-Z", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.", "AUTHOR": "Albert Ellis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.", "AUTHOR": "Salma Hayek", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Martin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Armstrong", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.", "AUTHOR": "Joe E. Lewis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Lint", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.", "AUTHOR": "Ludacris", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.", "AUTHOR": "David Seabury", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Walker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.", "AUTHOR": "Nigel Mansell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Steinem", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.", "AUTHOR": "Tim McGraw", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Handy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.", "AUTHOR": "Harold Ramis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the best place to work in football is England.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I will continue to work as hard as I can to make this organization proud. Every time I step on the field I will give everything I have and I will leave everything I have on the field every single Sunday.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.", "AUTHOR": "Mandy Patinkin", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.", "AUTHOR": "John D. Rockefeller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Derringer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Maurois", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.", "AUTHOR": "Martin H. Fischer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.", "AUTHOR": "Carlos Castaneda", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.", "AUTHOR": "Audre Lorde", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Simmons", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Lambert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My childhood was safe and sane. No abuse and no traumas. I was surrounded by a large and loving family who taught me the importance of hard work and a meaningful education.", "AUTHOR": "Ronnie James Dio", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Brees", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.", "AUTHOR": "Gillian Anderson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.", "AUTHOR": "Earl Nightingale", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Smits", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.", "AUTHOR": "Andre Gide", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry James", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.", "AUTHOR": "Aung San Suu Kyi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Meacham", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.", "AUTHOR": "Gracie Allen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.", "AUTHOR": "Michael J. Fox", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.", "AUTHOR": "Lascelles Abercrombie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.", "AUTHOR": "Stendhal", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.", "AUTHOR": "W. Edwards Deming", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.", "AUTHOR": "Emmanuelle Beart", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.", "AUTHOR": "Mehmet Oz", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.", "AUTHOR": "Oscar Hammerstein II", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Kennedy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.", "AUTHOR": "Ann Coulter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.", "AUTHOR": "William Hazlitt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Zuckerberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.", "AUTHOR": "Erykah Badu", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.", "AUTHOR": "Lukas Foss", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.", "AUTHOR": "Paula Deen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!", "AUTHOR": "Susan Powter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The greatest weariness comes from work not done.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Hoffer", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.", "AUTHOR": "Moliere", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.", "AUTHOR": "Kirsty Gallacher", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!", "AUTHOR": "Jim Valvano", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.", "AUTHOR": "Alan Alda", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.", "AUTHOR": "Eugene Delacroix", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.", "AUTHOR": "Peter McWilliams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stein", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.", "AUTHOR": "Imelda Staunton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!", "AUTHOR": "Mindy Kaling", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.", "AUTHOR": "David Herbert Lawrence", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Anthony", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.", "AUTHOR": "Alex Rodriguez", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Affleck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.", "AUTHOR": "Beatrice Wood", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Kay Ash", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.", "AUTHOR": "Mia Love", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.", "AUTHOR": "James Allen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Brodsky", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Sherman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.", "AUTHOR": "L'Wren Scott", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.", "AUTHOR": "Lyndon B. Johnson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Coffey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Kingsley", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.", "AUTHOR": "Ramakrishna", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.", "AUTHOR": "Julia Cameron", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.", "AUTHOR": "James M. Barrie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Evil gains work their punishment.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Reddy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Goleman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Harmon", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.", "AUTHOR": "Scott Adams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?", "AUTHOR": "Jenny McCarthy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Aquinas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.", "AUTHOR": "Quentin Tarantino", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.", "AUTHOR": "Rand Paul", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.", "AUTHOR": "Paddy Chayefsky", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.", "AUTHOR": "Tim Tebow", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.", "AUTHOR": "Charles de Gaulle", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Heatter", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.", "AUTHOR": "Thornton Wilder", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.", "AUTHOR": "Pete Coors", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.", "AUTHOR": "Constantin Brancusi", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.", "AUTHOR": "Simone Weil", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.", "AUTHOR": "Evander Holyfield", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.", "AUTHOR": "Dylan Thomas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.", "AUTHOR": "Gustave Flaubert", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.", "AUTHOR": "Woodrow Wilson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Aaron", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work is a game, a very serious game.", "AUTHOR": "M. C. Escher", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Covey", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.", "AUTHOR": "Mary McCarthy", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry West", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.", "AUTHOR": "Soichiro Honda", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.", "AUTHOR": "Magic Johnson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Eggers", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Cash", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Coogan", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Will it, and set to work briskly.", "AUTHOR": "Friedrich Schiller", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Debra Winger", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.", "AUTHOR": "Brigham Young", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.", "AUTHOR": "Sally Schneider", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.", "AUTHOR": "Maria Callas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.", "AUTHOR": "Claire Wolfe", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.", "AUTHOR": "Lou Holtz", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.", "AUTHOR": "Havelock Ellis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.", "AUTHOR": "Meister Eckhart", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.", "AUTHOR": "Lady Gaga", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.", "AUTHOR": "Jack White", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.", "AUTHOR": "George W. Bush", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Ventura", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Marston", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Willkie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.", "AUTHOR": "Bruce Jenner", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Fear God and work hard.", "AUTHOR": "David Livingstone", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.", "AUTHOR": "Vladimir Nabokov", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred Eisenstaedt", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.", "AUTHOR": "Michelle Obama", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Stone", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Warner", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.", "AUTHOR": "Vidal Sassoon", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.", "AUTHOR": "Roger Staubach", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Shalhoub", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.", "AUTHOR": "Meryl Streep", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Baudelaire", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.", "AUTHOR": "Patrick Stewart", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.", "AUTHOR": "Alvar Aalto", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.", "AUTHOR": "William Safire", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Douglas", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.", "AUTHOR": "Janet Jackson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.", "AUTHOR": "Danny Kaye", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Dolly Parton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think I am evangelical in my work.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Marshall", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.", "AUTHOR": "J. K. Rowling", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.", "AUTHOR": "Pamela Anderson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.", "AUTHOR": "Herman Melville", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.", "AUTHOR": "John Grisham", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Writing is hard work and bad for the health.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.", "AUTHOR": "Pearl S. Buck", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Nugent", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?", "AUTHOR": "Cate Blanchett", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It will work. I am a marketing genius.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Ramsay", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Rush Limbaugh", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.", "AUTHOR": "Isak Dinesen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!", "AUTHOR": "Marie Corelli", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.", "AUTHOR": "Craig Bruce", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.", "AUTHOR": "Dick Wolf", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.", "AUTHOR": "William Feather", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.", "AUTHOR": "Mel Brooks", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas S. Monson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "If you can laugh together, you can work together.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Orben", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.", "AUTHOR": "Paul McCartney", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.", "AUTHOR": "Aaliyah", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.", "AUTHOR": "Charlotte Gainsbourg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Richards", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Every man should have laws of his own, I should think commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert Parker", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.", "AUTHOR": "David Bowie", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Gibbon", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'", "AUTHOR": "Matthew Macfadyen", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Cram", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.", "AUTHOR": "Edward Hopper", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Weston", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The companies that make meaningful contributions while also listening to the voices of others are the ones that will genuinely engage their community, who will then go to work for them.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.", "AUTHOR": "Zakk Wylde", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Thompson", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?", "AUTHOR": "Simon Mainwaring", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.", "AUTHOR": "William Shatner", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.", "AUTHOR": "Chuck Jones", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.", "AUTHOR": "Nick Cave", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.", "AUTHOR": "Rachael Ray", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I work to stay alive.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.", "AUTHOR": "Giorgio Vasari", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.", "AUTHOR": "Constantin Stanislavski", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.", "AUTHOR": "Bette Davis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.", "AUTHOR": "Theodor Adorno", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.", "AUTHOR": "Kamisese Mara", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.", "AUTHOR": "Donald Rumsfeld", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Wozniak", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Cezanne", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I can work with any type of actor.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.", "AUTHOR": "Damon Albarn", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.", "AUTHOR": "Tennessee Williams", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.", "AUTHOR": "Oliver Wendell Holmes", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.", "AUTHOR": "Ang Lee", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.", "AUTHOR": "Patricia Velasquez", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Louis Gates", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "There's only one growth strategy: work hard.", "AUTHOR": "William Hague", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Work is the price which is paid for reputation.", "AUTHOR": "Baltasar Gracian", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Wasserman Schultz", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Benz", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.", "AUTHOR": "Bo Bennett", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.", "AUTHOR": "Neil Gaiman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Jackman", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Kevorkian", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.", "AUTHOR": "Galen Rowell", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Jung", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.", "AUTHOR": "Sheryl Sandberg", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Perry", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.", "AUTHOR": "Eddie Murray", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.", "AUTHOR": "Brian Eno", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.", "AUTHOR": "Caspar David Friedrich", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.", "AUTHOR": "Novalis", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Bridges", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Stoppard", "GENRE": "work" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Calvin Coolidge", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.", "AUTHOR": "Roy L. Smith", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.", "AUTHOR": "George Carlin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.", "AUTHOR": "Dr. Seuss", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A good conscience is a continual Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Franklin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Dale Evans", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?", "AUTHOR": "Gilbert K. Chesterton", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.", "AUTHOR": "Pope Paul VI", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.", "AUTHOR": "Bernard Manning", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.", "AUTHOR": "Freya Stark", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.", "AUTHOR": "Lucinda Franks", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.", "AUTHOR": "Washington Irving", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.", "AUTHOR": "Bing Crosby", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.", "AUTHOR": "Edna Ferber", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.", "AUTHOR": "Garrison Keillor", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Hope", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.", "AUTHOR": "Carrie Fisher", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Allan", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Tusser", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.", "AUTHOR": "Henny Youngman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the day that holds all time together.", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Smith", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.", "AUTHOR": "Ellen DeGeneres", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Seinfeld", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.", "AUTHOR": "Nicholas Lea", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Staughton Lynd", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.", "AUTHOR": "E. B. White", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.", "AUTHOR": "Karl Rahner", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Borge", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Tisdale", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.", "AUTHOR": "Clement Clarke Moore", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.", "AUTHOR": "Garry Moore", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.", "AUTHOR": "Phillips Brooks", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.", "AUTHOR": "Edwin Louis Cole", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.", "AUTHOR": "Lionel Blue", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.", "AUTHOR": "Pindar", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.", "AUTHOR": "Shirley Temple", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Ratzinger", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedrich Strauss", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.", "AUTHOR": "Clement Clarke Moore", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Van Allsburg", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Leacock", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Wright", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.", "AUTHOR": "Gina Gershon", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.", "AUTHOR": "Mary Ellen Chase", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Franz", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.", "AUTHOR": "Ernest Istook", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dudley Warner", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis McGinley", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.", "AUTHOR": "Marcelene Cox", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Miller", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.", "AUTHOR": "Bryan White", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Norman Vincent Peale", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.", "AUTHOR": "Demetri Martin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Dickens", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Ronald Reagan", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lamm", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Cannon", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.", "AUTHOR": "T. S. Eliot", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Bach", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.", "AUTHOR": "Jose Mourinho", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Hayes", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.", "AUTHOR": "Clarence Clemons", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas makes everything twice as sad.", "AUTHOR": "Doug Coupland", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Dawkins", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.", "AUTHOR": "Orson Welles", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.", "AUTHOR": "Jim Carrey", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Carson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Connick, Jr.", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.", "AUTHOR": "Dag Hammarskjold", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.", "AUTHOR": "Dan Savage", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.", "AUTHOR": "Caroline Kennedy", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is over and Business is Business.", "AUTHOR": "Franklin P. Adams", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.", "AUTHOR": "Wendy Cope", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.", "AUTHOR": "Alice Cooper", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Hitchens", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.", "AUTHOR": "William Tecumseh Sherman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Martin Freeman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Fry", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.", "AUTHOR": "Tori Amos", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.", "AUTHOR": "John Cleese", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'", "AUTHOR": "Jensen Ackles", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.", "AUTHOR": "TobyMac", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.", "AUTHOR": "Annie Lennox", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.", "AUTHOR": "David Cameron", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.", "AUTHOR": "Mahalia Jackson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Tyler", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Vegas", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.", "AUTHOR": "Benjamin Carson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.", "AUTHOR": "Nigella Lawson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "George Osborne", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.", "AUTHOR": "Paul Engle", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.", "AUTHOR": "Adam Carolla", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Brown", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Abbott", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Elliot", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.", "AUTHOR": "Padma Lakshmi", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.", "AUTHOR": "Ellie Goulding", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Lewis Black", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.", "AUTHOR": "Trey Parker", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Grant", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Hanks", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Kozol", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.", "AUTHOR": "Grazia Deledda", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.", "AUTHOR": "Diane Kruger", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.", "AUTHOR": "Robbie Fowler", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.", "AUTHOR": "Ice Cube", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.", "AUTHOR": "Shaquille O'Neal", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Lamm", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'", "AUTHOR": "Sloane Crosley", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine Whitehorn", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.", "AUTHOR": "Katherine Jenkins", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.", "AUTHOR": "Mario Batali", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Springfield", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.", "AUTHOR": "Florence Welch", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.", "AUTHOR": "Alison Sweeney", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.", "AUTHOR": "Jimmy Fallon", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.", "AUTHOR": "Frances Farmer", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.", "AUTHOR": "Jamie Foxx", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'", "AUTHOR": "Tori Spelling", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Evans", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.", "AUTHOR": "David Friedman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.", "AUTHOR": "Andrea Arnold", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.", "AUTHOR": "Kristen Wiig", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.", "AUTHOR": "Renee Fleming", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Applegate", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Butler", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Jerry Falwell", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.", "AUTHOR": "Garth Brooks", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Bill Nighy", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph W. Sockman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin Richardson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.", "AUTHOR": "Lance Burton", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.", "AUTHOR": "Mo Rocca", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.", "AUTHOR": "Mira Nair", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Karlie Kloss", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.", "AUTHOR": "Arthur Laffer", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.", "AUTHOR": "Margot Kidder", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.", "AUTHOR": "Frank McCourt", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.", "AUTHOR": "Frank McCourt", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.", "AUTHOR": "Busy Philipps", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.", "AUTHOR": "A. J. Liebling", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Kucinich", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.", "AUTHOR": "Bradley Whitford", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.", "AUTHOR": "Meghan O'Rourke", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.", "AUTHOR": "Andrew Lloyd Webber", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.", "AUTHOR": "Alastair Campbell", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Lauren Graham", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Kary Mullis", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Visconti", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.", "AUTHOR": "Olivia Williams", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.", "AUTHOR": "Ivan Lendl", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).", "AUTHOR": "Janet Napolitano", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.", "AUTHOR": "Mike Shinoda", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I was lucky enough to grow up in a home where I woke up Christmas morning and had toys. I know that's not the case with all people and I don't think kids should go without experiencing that sort of joy.", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!", "AUTHOR": "Lucy Hale", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.", "AUTHOR": "Rebecca Romijn", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Teeter", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.", "AUTHOR": "David Hasselhoff", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.", "AUTHOR": "Steve Israel", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Judd", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.", "AUTHOR": "Luke Perry", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.", "AUTHOR": "Tommy Hilfiger", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Ann Duffy", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Manilow", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.", "AUTHOR": "Barry Manilow", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.", "AUTHOR": "Christie Hefner", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.", "AUTHOR": "David Eddings", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.", "AUTHOR": "Ian Mckellen", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.", "AUTHOR": "Zack Snyder", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.", "AUTHOR": "Ashley Benson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.", "AUTHOR": "Tanya Tucker", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.", "AUTHOR": "James McAvoy", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.", "AUTHOR": "Monica Seles", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!", "AUTHOR": "Nancy Kerrigan", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.", "AUTHOR": "Kyra Sedgwick", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.", "AUTHOR": "Gustavo Dudamel", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.", "AUTHOR": "Dennis Bergkamp", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Trower", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Steinberger", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!", "AUTHOR": "Hoda Kotb", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.", "AUTHOR": "George J. Mitchell", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.", "AUTHOR": "Gemma Arterton", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Muddy Waters", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.", "AUTHOR": "Muddy Waters", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Brautigan", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Stosur", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Scheuer", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.", "AUTHOR": "Spike Jonze", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Henley", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.", "AUTHOR": "Richard E. Grant", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Maltin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.", "AUTHOR": "Leonard Maltin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.", "AUTHOR": "Suzy Bogguss", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.", "AUTHOR": "Bonnie Tyler", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.", "AUTHOR": "Jack Bowman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.", "AUTHOR": "April Winchell", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.", "AUTHOR": "Johann Lamont", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.", "AUTHOR": "Ryan Adams", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "George Weah", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going there was no reason to quit.", "AUTHOR": "Jeff Dunham", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.", "AUTHOR": "David O. Selznick", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Agre", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Burt Ward", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love all things Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Samantha Barks", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Smart", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "South Park started as a little video Christmas card.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Hodgson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.", "AUTHOR": "James Irwin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.", "AUTHOR": "Max Greenfield", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.", "AUTHOR": "Sara Gilbert", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.", "AUTHOR": "Lana Parrilla", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.", "AUTHOR": "John Tesh", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?", "AUTHOR": "Pippa Middleton", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.", "AUTHOR": "Sarah Polley", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sherman-Palladino", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.", "AUTHOR": "Peter Jurasik", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.", "AUTHOR": "Melanie Brown", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Melamed", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Hanson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.", "AUTHOR": "Isaac Hanson", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Bonneville", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.", "AUTHOR": "TobyMac", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.", "AUTHOR": "TobyMac", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.", "AUTHOR": "James Cronin", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.", "AUTHOR": "A. E. van Vogt", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.", "AUTHOR": "Trishelle Cannatella", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Frantz", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.", "AUTHOR": "Johnny Galecki", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.", "AUTHOR": "Chris Pine", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.", "AUTHOR": "Lucas Grabeel", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.'", "AUTHOR": "Kurtis Blow", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.", "AUTHOR": "Vincent Frank", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Harry Melling", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Thibodeaux", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.", "AUTHOR": "Keith Thibodeaux", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?", "AUTHOR": "Ian St. John", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.", "AUTHOR": "Pico Iyer", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.", "AUTHOR": "Clint Black", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Barlow", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Yes, my first memory of singing, in general, was of a Christmas song. And then listening to Christmas music was really the first music I was ever connected to.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Perri", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.", "AUTHOR": "Christina Perri", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Miranda Cosgrove", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.", "AUTHOR": "Whitley Strieber", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.", "AUTHOR": "Whitley Strieber", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.", "AUTHOR": "Whitley Strieber", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Taylor Thomas", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!", "AUTHOR": "Lloyd Kaufman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Alfred E. Smith", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.", "AUTHOR": "Guy Berryman", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Owens", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.", "AUTHOR": "Enid Nemy", "GENRE": "christmas" }, { "QUOTE": "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.", "AUTHOR": "Mahatma Gandhi", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'", "AUTHOR": "Billy Graham", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.", "AUTHOR": "Dwight L. Moody", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.", "AUTHOR": "Basil Hume", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "Bernhard Langer", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.", "AUTHOR": "Robert H. Schuller", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.", "AUTHOR": "Joel Osteen", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.", "AUTHOR": "Rick Warren", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.", "AUTHOR": "Bede Griffiths", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.", "AUTHOR": "Charles Stanley", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.", "AUTHOR": "Deepak Chopra", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.", "AUTHOR": "William Barclay", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.", "AUTHOR": "Reba McEntire", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.", "AUTHOR": "Keith O'Brien", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.", "AUTHOR": "Daniel Morgan", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.", "AUTHOR": "Kenneth Scott Latourette", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.", "AUTHOR": "E. Stanley Jones", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.", "AUTHOR": "Josh McDowell", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.", "AUTHOR": "Amy Sedaris", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.", "AUTHOR": "William Tyndale", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.", "AUTHOR": "T. D. Jakes", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.", "AUTHOR": "Lea DeLaria", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.", "AUTHOR": "Jane Elliot", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Burchill", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Rundgren", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Mackay", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.", "AUTHOR": "Marvin Olasky", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year, with Michelle Obama. But it more had to do with cooking from the organic garden, and her message. I took my daughter and granddaughter there, and they were really charming, it was great.", "AUTHOR": "Jacques Pepin", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.", "AUTHOR": "Robert South", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.", "AUTHOR": "William Weld", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.", "AUTHOR": "Chita Rivera", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.", "AUTHOR": "John Guare", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.", "AUTHOR": "Leon Uris", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.", "AUTHOR": "Simon Kinberg", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Leunig", "GENRE": "easter" }, { "QUOTE": "When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "It is a wise father that knows his own child.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.", "AUTHOR": "Conrad Hall", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Frost", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.", "AUTHOR": "Euripides", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.", "AUTHOR": "Al Unser", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.", "AUTHOR": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.", "AUTHOR": "Sidney Poitier", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.", "AUTHOR": "George Herbert", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.", "AUTHOR": "Anne Sexton", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.", "AUTHOR": "Kid Rock", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.", "AUTHOR": "Gordon Brown", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.", "AUTHOR": "Wendell Phillips", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.", "AUTHOR": "Dante Hall", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.", "AUTHOR": "Olive Schreiner", "GENRE": "fathersday" }, { "QUOTE": "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.", "AUTHOR": "John F. Kennedy", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "George Washington", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.", "AUTHOR": "James A. Baldwin", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.", "AUTHOR": "George William Curtis", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.", "AUTHOR": "Robin Hayes", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.", "AUTHOR": "Nathan Hale", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.", "AUTHOR": "John M. McHugh", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.", "AUTHOR": "William J. Clinton", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.", "AUTHOR": "James Bryce", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!", "AUTHOR": "Alexander Henry", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.", "AUTHOR": "Michael N. Castle", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.", "AUTHOR": "Philip James Bailey", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Riley", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Ignatieff", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "The average American is nothing if not patriotic.", "AUTHOR": "Herbert Croly", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Reich", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Knox", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Charles Winthrop", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.", "AUTHOR": "Doc Hastings", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.", "AUTHOR": "Glenn Beck", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.", "AUTHOR": "Allen West", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.", "AUTHOR": "Danica Patrick", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer M. Granholm", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.", "AUTHOR": "Eric Burdon", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.", "AUTHOR": "John Linder", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.", "AUTHOR": "Paddy Chayefsky", "GENRE": "memorialday" }, { "QUOTE": "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.", "AUTHOR": "Abraham Lincoln", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.", "AUTHOR": "Theodore Hesburgh", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.", "AUTHOR": "Rudyard Kipling", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Fromm", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.", "AUTHOR": "Antonio Villaraigosa", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Children are the anchors of a mother's life.", "AUTHOR": "Sophocles", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.", "AUTHOR": "Honore de Balzac", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.", "AUTHOR": "George Eliot", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.", "AUTHOR": "Stevie Wonder", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.", "AUTHOR": "Gracie Allen", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.", "AUTHOR": "Billy Sunday", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Kingsolver", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.", "AUTHOR": "Isadora Duncan", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.", "AUTHOR": "Gloria Estefan", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.", "AUTHOR": "Martina Hingis", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "My mother is a walking miracle.", "AUTHOR": "Leonardo DiCaprio", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "My mom is definitely my rock.", "AUTHOR": "Alicia Keys", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?", "AUTHOR": "Donald E. Westlake", "GENRE": "mothersday" }, { "QUOTE": "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.", "AUTHOR": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.", "AUTHOR": "Helen Keller", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.", "AUTHOR": "William Shakespeare", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.", "AUTHOR": "Mark Twain", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.", "AUTHOR": "James Agate", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.", "AUTHOR": "Goran Persson", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.", "AUTHOR": "Jonathan Edwards", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.", "AUTHOR": "Steven Spielberg", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.", "AUTHOR": "W. C. Fields", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.", "AUTHOR": "Cavett Robert", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.", "AUTHOR": "F. Scott Fitzgerald", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.", "AUTHOR": "P. J. O'Rourke", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Fulghum", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Celebrate what you want to see more of.", "AUTHOR": "Tom Peters", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.", "AUTHOR": "Tucker Carlson", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.", "AUTHOR": "Kim Kardashian", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.", "AUTHOR": "W. Somerset Maugham", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.", "AUTHOR": "Mason Cooley", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.", "AUTHOR": "Paris Hilton", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.", "AUTHOR": "Cyril Cusack", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.", "AUTHOR": "Akhenaton", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.", "AUTHOR": "Carl Sandburg", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Bowden", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.", "AUTHOR": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?", "AUTHOR": "Catherine O'Hara", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.", "AUTHOR": "Walter Scott", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?", "AUTHOR": "Aeschylus", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.", "AUTHOR": "Phil McGraw", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.", "AUTHOR": "Barbara Walters", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "To be an ideal guest, stay at home.", "AUTHOR": "E. W. Howe", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.", "AUTHOR": "Debbie Harry", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.", "AUTHOR": "Natalie Portman", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.", "AUTHOR": "Wally Lamb", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.", "AUTHOR": "Ben Stiller", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Pepys", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?", "AUTHOR": "Mary-Kate Olsen", "GENRE": "newyears" }, { "QUOTE": "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.", "AUTHOR": "Winston Churchill", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.", "AUTHOR": "William Butler Yeats", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.", "AUTHOR": "Pope John Paul II", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.", "AUTHOR": "Brendan Behan", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.", "AUTHOR": "Colin Farrell", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.", "AUTHOR": "Dave Barry", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.", "AUTHOR": "Liam Neeson", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.", "AUTHOR": "Shane Leslie", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.", "AUTHOR": "James Joyce", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?", "AUTHOR": "Lara Flynn Boyle", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.", "AUTHOR": "John Millington Synge", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.", "AUTHOR": "Fiona Shaw", "GENRE": "saintpatricksday" }, { "QUOTE": "Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.", "AUTHOR": "Oprah Winfrey", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.", "AUTHOR": "Jon Stewart", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.", "AUTHOR": "William Blake", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Van Dyke", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.", "AUTHOR": "Erma Bombeck", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.", "AUTHOR": "Victor Hugo", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.", "AUTHOR": "O. Henry", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.", "AUTHOR": "W. Clement Stone", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Joseph Auslander", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.", "AUTHOR": "Phyllis Diller", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.", "AUTHOR": "Konrad von Gesner", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.", "AUTHOR": "Storm Jameson", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.", "AUTHOR": "Kevin James", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.", "AUTHOR": "Marilu Henner", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.", "AUTHOR": "Richard Roeper", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm thankful for every moment.", "AUTHOR": "Al Green", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.", "AUTHOR": "Tony Snow", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.", "AUTHOR": "Frank A. Clark", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.", "AUTHOR": "Irv Kupcinet", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.", "AUTHOR": "Franz Grillparzer", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.", "AUTHOR": "Henry Ward Beecher", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.", "AUTHOR": "Bobby Jindal", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.", "AUTHOR": "Todd Barry", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.", "AUTHOR": "Kin Hubbard", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.", "AUTHOR": "Algernon Charles Swinburne", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Schieffer", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.", "AUTHOR": "John Hughes", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.", "AUTHOR": "Sandra Lee", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.", "AUTHOR": "Kurt Busch", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?", "AUTHOR": "David Letterman", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.", "AUTHOR": "Evan Davis", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!", "AUTHOR": "Ted Allen", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.", "AUTHOR": "Beth Ditto", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Gary Vaynerchuk", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!", "AUTHOR": "Joe Nichols", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.", "AUTHOR": "John Clayton", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.", "AUTHOR": "Ina Garten", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer M. Granholm", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.", "AUTHOR": "Cindy Margolis", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.", "AUTHOR": "Michael Symon", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Carol Alt", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.", "AUTHOR": "Hank Azaria", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.", "AUTHOR": "Katharine McPhee", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.", "AUTHOR": "Richie Sambora", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!", "AUTHOR": "Rodney Atkins", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.", "AUTHOR": "James Patterson", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.", "AUTHOR": "Stephen Evans", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.", "AUTHOR": "Jesse Tyler Ferguson", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!", "AUTHOR": "Lily Aldridge", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.", "AUTHOR": "Merle Shain", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.", "AUTHOR": "Bob Wells", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.", "AUTHOR": "Marc Forgione", "GENRE": "thanksgiving" }, { "QUOTE": "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.", "AUTHOR": "Maya Angelou", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.", "AUTHOR": "Charles M. Schulz", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.", "AUTHOR": "Coco Chanel", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.", "AUTHOR": "Blaise Pascal", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "The best smell in the world is that man that you love.", "AUTHOR": "Jennifer Aniston", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.", "AUTHOR": "Lord Byron", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.", "AUTHOR": "Thomas Moore", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Marlowe", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.", "AUTHOR": "W. H. Auden", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.", "AUTHOR": "Samuel Butler", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.", "AUTHOR": "Frank Morgan", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.", "AUTHOR": "Emma Goldman", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Where there is great love, there are always wishes.", "AUTHOR": "Willa Cather", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.", "AUTHOR": "Margaret Atwood", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.", "AUTHOR": "Cher", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.", "AUTHOR": "Erich Segal", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.", "AUTHOR": "John Keats", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!", "AUTHOR": "Jay Leno", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.", "AUTHOR": "e. e. cummings", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.", "AUTHOR": "Drew Barrymore", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.", "AUTHOR": "Julie Andrews", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?", "AUTHOR": "Zsa Zsa Gabor", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.", "AUTHOR": "Esai Morales", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.", "AUTHOR": "Robert Browning", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.", "AUTHOR": "Fred Allen", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.", "AUTHOR": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.", "AUTHOR": "Cameron Diaz", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.", "AUTHOR": "Anna Held", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.", "AUTHOR": "Will Estes", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.", "AUTHOR": "Laurence J. Peter", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.", "AUTHOR": "Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "How sweet it is!", "AUTHOR": "Jackie Gleason", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.", "AUTHOR": "Luciano De Crescenzo", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Everything's coming up roses - for me.", "AUTHOR": "Ethel Merman", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?", "AUTHOR": "Amy Poehler", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone.", "AUTHOR": "Susie Bright", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I like perfume and flowers.", "AUTHOR": "Donatella Versace", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.", "AUTHOR": "Fernando Pessoa", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.", "AUTHOR": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.", "AUTHOR": "Hugh Grant", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.", "AUTHOR": "Jeremy London", "GENRE": "valentinesday" }, { "QUOTE": "Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.", "AUTHOR": "Christopher Plummer", "GENRE": "valentinesday" } ]